Noun1.tsunami- a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption; "a colossal tsunami destroyed the Minoan civilization in minutes" calamity,catastrophe,tragedy,disaster,cataclysm- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affect...
We found seven event deposits during the past 3800 years in a total of 16 geological core samples from a coastal lowland in Fukushima Prefecture, about 12 km north of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The event deposits consisted of well-sorted and rounded fine to coarse sand with ...
A new study finds the magnetic field generated by a tsunami can be detected a few minutes earlier than changes in sea level and could improve warnings of these giant waves. Nearly 300 Years Ago, a Tsunami Hit The Coast of Chile, But Nobody Found It Until NowScience Alert - December 13,...
In the last 13,000 years, there are 17 tsunami events recorded in Sweden. This chapter highlights the characteristics of two high-magnitude events from the deglacial period and three events from Late Holocene age.
A subset of megathrust earthquakes produce anomalously large tsunamis for their magnitude. All of these recorded ‘tsunami earthquakes’ in the past 50 years had extensional aftershocks in the upper plate. These include the two largest and most destructi
part of the state was submerged under a shallow sea that was an extension of today's Gulf of Mexico. That the gulf was home to a thriving ecosystem of unique animals even 70 million years ago is unsurprising — check out our list ofspectacular sea species found in the Gulf of Mexico...
They have approximately the same periods and spatial scales as ordinary tsunami waves and can affect coastal areas in a similar destructive way (cf. Monserrat et al. 2006; Vilibić et al. 2014). In recent years, meteotsunamis have attracted significant attention from scientists and specialists...
A flexible approach to assessing synchroneity of past events using Bayesian reconstructions of sedimentation history. Quat. Sci. Rev. 27, 1872–1885 (2008). Article Google Scholar Rubin, C. et al. Highly variable recurrence of tsunamis in the 7,400 years before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami...
Also, tsunamis may be regarded as low frequency events but with high impacts in terms of human/infrastructure/economic losses. Their power of destruction has been more than evident in recent years [2–11]. It is believed that from the time period between 1998 and 2017, the losses inflicted ...
There may be long-term financial implications as well, as entire communities would be impacted, leading to a possible migration of residents to areas not effected by the disaster. Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, for example, the population of New Orleans dropped dramatically, and 10 years la...