[2]: 1036 Meteotsunamis, rather, are triggered due to extreme weather events including severe thunderstorms, squalls and storm fronts; all of which can quickly change atmospheric pressure.
Meteotsunamis typically occur when severe weather is moving at the same speed and direction of the local wave action towards the coastline.
[5] In some parts of the world, they are common enough to have local names: rissaga or rissague (Catalan), ressaca[citation needed] or resarca (Portuguese), milgħuba (Maltese), marrobbio or marrubio (Italian), Seebär (German), sjösprång (Swedish), Sea Bar (Scots), abiki or yota (Japanese), šćiga (Croatian).
[4]: 4 Examples of particularly susceptible areas include Nagasaki Bay,[2]: 1038–1040 [4]: 8 the eastern Adriatic Sea,[2]: 1046 [4]: 8 and the Western Mediterranean.
In New Jersey, divers were pulled over a breakwater and three people were swept off a jetty, two seriously injured, when a six-foot wave struck the Barnegat Inlet.