| Another rare event that may result from a tsunami is a standing wave or seiche. |
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| Another type of water wave, a seiche, is generated in an enclosed body of water such as a lake. |
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| Winds can also induce tilting of the water surface and of the thermocline, which may result in seiche motions that oscillate within the basin. |
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| The seiche in the Bay of Fundy and Ungava Bay are therefore sustained by a pulse from the ocean tides. |
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| The water in the Bay of Fundy and Ungava Bay also has a natural rocking motion called a seiche. |
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| Following initiation of the seiche, the water sloshes back and forth until the oscillation is damped out by friction. |
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| The seiche can continue, in a pendulum fashion, even after the cessation of the originating force. |
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| In the Great Lakes area, a seiche could mean any sudden rise in the water of a harbor or a lake, whether or not it is oscillatory. |
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| A seiche occurs in bodies of water that are partially or completely enclosed, such as Hilo Bay, creating a standing wave that continually sloshes back and forth. |
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| The seiche wave phenomenon was first discovered by noted Swiss Hydrologist Francois-Alphonse Forel in 1890, on Lake Geneva, Switzerland. |
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| The period of oscillation of a seiche depends on the causative force which sets the water basin in motion and the natural or free oscillating period of the basin. |
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| One hastily Googled the word from the menu, seiche, then showed me the result on her phone. |
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