Do tsunamis have names like hurricanes have names?
No. Hurricanes are events that happen every year and we know for sure they will happen during the hurricane season. Forecasters can watch how they form and travel, and during that process they give them names. Unfortunately, tsunamis are not predictable; they don’t happen regularly. That’s why they don’t have names. After they happen, they give them names, which usually tell the general location they happened at, such as the Indonesian Tsunami of 2004 or the Alaskan Tsunami of 1964.
