Understanding Tsunamis

ANIMATIONS, PHOTOS, & VIDEOS	EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
Here's an excellent Quicktime animation showing how a tsunami forms. (Animation by Miho Aoki of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.)  Another animation by the same professor shows a tsunami's effects on a coastal town.   Visualizations and animations collected by the "On the Cutting Edge" group at the Science Education Research Center The PBS online series The Savage Earth episode on tsunamis includes text, animation, and video clips Amateur video footage of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 "Before and after" aerial photographs of areas inundated by the Indian Ocean tsunami Video/animations from the Tsunami Research Center at the University of Southern California How do those tsunami monitoring buoys work?	How to Survive a Tsunami FEMA explains how to prepare for disasters like tsunamis How to chlorinate a contaminated drinking water well
	TSUNAMI RESEARCH AND INFORMATION CENTERS
	The University of Southern California's Tsunami Research Center NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Tsunami Research Program Here's a FAQ from the International Tsunami Information Center, and a quick guide to the science behind the "Great Waves"   U.S. Geological Survey Tsunami   Home Page

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Last updated  March 7, 2007.