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I think you're imagining two towering waves crashing into each other. But in fact tsunamis only pile up like that when they enter shallow water. In the open ocean a tsunami is a wide area (~100km) of slightly raised (~1m) water. If two overlapped it would just be raised twice as high, which wouldn't cause much turbulence.



Ok, yes I do, but I think mega Tsunamies do pile up a bit more?

And the scenario in my head was many impacts in a close area - and the resulting waves then interacting with each other with turbulence.




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