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Just a tiny bit of clarification here...
1) The wave tops on open sea are not much higher than 2 meters. That is why you do not notice them until they reach the shore.
2) The 500km/h speed is on the ocean FLOOR on OPEN SEA.
3) The speed drops dramatically once it hits shallower water, and the wave then builds up.
This of course does not make it any less dangerous, but just wanted to point this out so everyone understood.
It really works just like the tsunami you see in Deep Impact. Just a (little) smaller. 14m (which the highest ones were as far as I know) is still extremely high of course. And these waves do not just get 14m high and come russing to you, they start small, so you do not notice them and then they hit shallower water, pull all the water away from the shore and build up to 14m in a matter of seconds, and then just hit the shore.
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