This including several major metropolises such as New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney and Los Angeles. The Second Wave was a literal wave: judging from Cassie's recount, the Others dropped some form of a metal rod from the height of the atmosphere onto one of the earth's fault lines, which then resulted in earthquakes and massive tsunami waves that wiped out all coastal cities on all seven continents. Second Wave: Literal waves from Tsunamis flood Coastal cities This had the effect of causing all cars and other motor vehicles to crash into each other or into buildings and brought airborne planes crashing from the sky.Ĭassie mentioned that the first wave killed around half of a million people. It was a massive EMP strike, an electromagnetic pulse, that effectively shorted out all forms of technology and objects that ran on electricity (i.e.: cars, cellphones, etc.). The First Wave, as its name implies, was the first of the five (current) waves to be used by the Others.
