Tsunami News

Posted September 21, 2011:

• Observations of Fallout from the Fukushima Reactor Accident in San Francisco Bay Area Rainwater

Posted September 19, 2011:

• Fukushima: Reflections Six Months on

Posted August 16, 2011:

• Tsunami Observed by Radar, May Lead to Better Early Warning Systems

Posted August 8, 2011:

• Japan's Tohoku Tsunami Created Icebergs in Antarctica

Posted July 14, 2011:

• Tsunami Airglow Signature Could Lead to Early Detection System

Posted July 10, 2011:

• Olympia Hypothesis: Tsunamis Buried the Cult Site on the Peloponnese

Posted June 22, 2011:

• Stiff Sediments Made 2004 Sumatra Earthquake Deadliest in History

Posted June 3, 2011:

• Helping the Aged During Natural Disasters
• Tsunami Sensor Detects Mysterious Background Signal in Panama

Posted May 25, 2011:

• Japan Earthquake Appears to Increase Quake Risk Elsewhere in the Country

Posted May 24, 2011:

• Unusual Earthquake Gave Japan Tsunami Extra Punch, Say Scientists

Posted May 19, 2011:

• Japan's 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake: Surprising Findings About Energy Distribution Over Fault Slip and Stress Accumulation

Posted April 25, 2011:

• Port Valdez Invertebrates Stabilized 26 Years After Alaska's Great Earthquake

Posted April 15, 2011:

• Twitter and Natural Disasters: Crisis Communication Lessons from the Japan Tsunami

Posted April 6, 2011:

• Where Will the Debris from Japan's Tsunami Drift in the Ocean?

Posted March 30, 2011:

• US Earthquake Resilience Needs Strengthening, Says New Report

Posted March 24, 2011:

• Researchers Help Map Tsunami and Earthquake Damage in Japan

Posted March 18, 2011:

• Japanese Tsunami Underscores Need for Elder Disaster Preparedness

Posted March 16, 2011:

• Japan Earthquake Disaster: Geophysicists Create Animation Showing Sequence of Quakes
• NASA Satellite Sees Area Affected by Japan Tsunami

Posted March 14, 2011:

• Lessons from Japan's Earthquake

Posted March 11, 2011:

• Near-Real-Time Map of Japan Quake Aftershocks
• West Coast Tsunami Warnings Shouldn’t Lull Oregonians to Sleep, Expert Says
• Pacific Northwest Faces Nearly Identical Risks to Japanese Quake
• Geologists in the UK Trace Readings from Japan Earthquake

Posted March 4, 2011:

• New System Can Warn of Tsunamis Within Minutes

Posted February 28, 2011:

• Simulating Breaking Waves

Posted February 20, 2011:

• Testing the Limits of Where Humans Can Live

Posted January 17, 2011:

• Haiti Dominates Earthquake Fatalities in 2010

Posted January 14, 2011:

• Donating to Disaster Victims: What Makes Us Reach for Our Wallets?

Posted December 23, 2010:

• Six Years After the 2004 Tsunami Disaster, Technical Setup of the Early Warning Sysem Completed

Posted December 13, 2010:

• 'Array of Arrays' Coaxing Secrets from Unfelt Seismic Tremor Events

Posted October 28, 2010:

• Root of the Matter: A New Map Shows Life-Saving Forests' Scarcity Defies Past Estimates

Posted October 10, 2010:

• Tsunami Risk Higher in Los Angeles, Other Major Cities Than Thought, Haiti Study Suggests

Posted September 17, 2010:

• U.S. Tsunami Detection Improves, but Coastal Areas Still Vulnerable, Report Finds

Posted September 16, 2010:

• The Biggest Crash on Earth: India Slides Under Tibet, but How?

Posted September 10, 2010:

• Perceived Life-Threat Affects Mental Health, Swedish Research Finds Finds

Posted September 9, 2010:

• Tectonic Zip: Predictable Events of the February 2010 Earthquake in Chile

Posted September 2, 2010:

• Natural Disasters Do Not Necessarily Create Peace, Research Finds

Posted August 19, 2010:

• Predicting Waves of Large Amplitude for Tsunami Warning Systems

Posted August 18, 2010:

• Deadly Samoa-Tonga Earthquake Concealed Two Other Quakes, Seismic Sleuths Discover

Posted August 16, 2010:

• Massive Coral Mortality Following Bleaching in Indonesia

Posted July 15, 2010:

• Sri Lankan Children Affected by War, Tsunami, Daily Stressors

Posted July 8, 2010:

• Geoscientists Find Clues to Why First Sumatran Earthquake Was Deadlier Than Second

Posted June 14, 2010:

• NASA Demonstrates Tsunami Prediction System

Posted May 24, 2010:

• Odds Are About 1-in-3 That Mega-Earthquake Will Hit Pacific Northwest in Next 50 Years, Scientists Say

Posted May 19, 2010:

• Lessons from 9/11: Psychiatrists Are Indispensible in First-Response Teams

Posted May 5, 2010:

• Aseismic Slip as a Barrier to Earthquake Propagation

Posted April 28, 2010:

• Locating Tsunami Warning Buoys

Posted April 14, 2010:

• Earthquake in Chile Causesd Days to Be Longer, Austrian Researchers Find

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