American Geophysical Union NEWS Public Information Office, 2000 Florida Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009 / (202) 462-6900 / FAX 202-328-0566 For Immediate Release: June 12, 1996 Contact: Dave Thomas at (202) 777-7507 RESEARCH DESCRIBES ORIGIN OF DEVASTATING TSUNAMI On June 15, 1896, nearly 22,000 Japanese lost their lives due to the most devastating tsunami in Japanese history. The tsunami, which was generated by an earthquake off the coast of Sanriku, Japan, attained a hei ...

Tidal Response of a Bay This application requires a Java-enhanced browser to use. Sorry. A lagoon or bay connected to the ocean by an inlet has a tide that is smaller than that of the ocean due to the flow restriction imposed by the small cross-sectional area of the inlet. In addition, energy losses, due to friction and entrance and exit losses, serve to reduce the tide range of the bay. Finally, the bay tide also lags that of the ocean due to the time required to fill the lagoon. Th ...

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Tsunami Laboratory Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics (Computing Center) Siberian Division Russian Academy of Sciences Head of the Laboratory: Dr. Viacheslav K.Gusiakov Tel: (3832) 34-20-70 Fax: (3832) 32-42-59 Email: gvk@omzg.sscc.ru Current research projects On-line Pacific Tsunami Catalog, 47B.C. to present On-line Atlantic Tsunami Catalog, 60B.C. to present On-line Mediterranean Tsunami Catalog, 1628B.C. to present July 17, 1998 Papua ...

Reply to ASK-AN-EARTH-SCIENTIST Subject: Tsunamis in the Atlantic Ocean why are there no earthquake generated tsunamis located in the atlantic ocean? Most tsunamis are generated by shallow earthquakes in subduction zones, since those are the commonest earthquakes which distort the seafloor. The only subduction zones around the Atlantic are the Puerto Rico Trench and the Antilles subduction zone around the eastern Caribbean and the South Sandwich Trench south of South America. These subd ...

Welcome to Tsunami! Tsunami! was originally a World-Wide Web site that had been developed to provide general information about tsunamis. Much of the site and its original information is now somewhat out of date, and in fact the site is currently undergoing overhaul. Due to the increased interest following the recent Asian tsunami, we have provided links to off-site information below. We have also put together an image (viewable to the right by clicking on it) that illustrates the basic diffe ...

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SITE INDEX What kind of monster is this? It speeds across the sea as fast as a jet airplane. On reaching land, it can suck all the water out of a harbor. Then the creature may grow more than 100 feet tall (30 1/2 meters) and flatten whole villages. This sea monster is a tsunami (tsoo-NAH-mee). That’s Japanese for “great harbor wave.” Though sometimes called “tidal waves,” tsunamis have nothing to do with tides. Usually an undersea earthquake starts a tsunami’s waves rolling acr ...

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