Do tsunamis send mysterious waves into the earth's atmosphere as well?

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   Tsunamis leave a destructive and often deadly stamp on land, but they also make a surprising and poorly understood impression high above the Earth. The tsunami very effectively generates atmospheric gravity waves, and because they're fast, those waves can effectively travel to the upper atmosphere. These tsunami-generated waves go barging into parts of the ionosphere where they're not generally seen, causing a ruckus among the particles that live there. The waves cause anomalies in GPS data, and may allow scientists to someday better pinpoint the origin and magnitude of a tsunami. The waves can travel higher than 180 miles (300 km) above the Earth, equivalent to a trip from Chicago to Indianapolis. Their peaks and valleys are meters, sometimes hundreds of meters apart; their horizontal wavelengths — the distance from one peak to the next — can be several hundred kilometers.

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