epicenter was 47 kilometers below the Earth's surface - too deep to initiate a tsunami - and the rupture was nearly 400 kilometers long, which should have generated a much larger earthquake. Seismologists were puzzled and sought to understand what really happened that day in the remote South ...
when a tsunami generated by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake happened to pass underneath a university of hawaii research vessel en route to guam that was equipped with high-accuracy gps. in the deep ocean, a tsunami wave might be more than 300 miles long but only a meter or less in height, ma...
Recently, police arrested a 63-year-old Sri Lankan man on charges of trying to sell his two young grand- daughters after their home was destroyed and their mother killed by the tsunami – a case that highlights the vulnerability of children in the wake of the disaster. The arrest of A....
In another, related study, Schambach and Grilli worked with researchers at the University of Delaware using XSEDE-allocated resources to simulate an infamous East Coast landslide that happened approximately 16,000 years ago. The work is important because, though the U.S. eastern seaboard is at a...
“‘Once I lost my job there were no payments being made at all,’ she said. ‘They started threatening the sheriff’s sale.’ That happened in September 2007. The balance of the mortgage owed was approximately $118,000.” “She had the house listed for sale. It’s been on the marke...
and low image accuracy. The method for 3D modeling of tsunamis that results from this research can fulfil those weaknesses because it has advantages, such as being able to predict the end point of waves, similar to the original environment, and the height and area of inundation. In addition,...
We present nautical charts that portray the changes that have occurred in San Diego Bay since the nineteenth century. Because modifications to the bay happened quite frequently, especially during the first half of the twentieth century, we summarized major changes over selected years. A small set ...