Information on Tsunamis

Current PCMSC Project Descriptions:

• Coastal and Marine Earthquake, Tsunami, and Landslide Active Margin Field Studies
• Tsunami Hazards, Modeling, and the Sedimentary Record

Web Pages:

• The March 11, 2011 Pacific Ocean tsunami
  • Notes From the Field—Web page features:
    • news from our scientists who visited Japan shortly after the tsunami
    • videos and photos taken in Santa Cruz the day the tsunami hit the California coast
    • photos from Hawaii taken after the initial tsunami surge hit the Big Island
  • Preliminary simulation of the tsunami from the March 11, 2011 M=9.0 subduction zone earthquake offshore of Honshu, Japan
  • Pre- and post-tsunami Japan—photos from an international field trip to Japan in April, 2010, and comparisons to the same locations following the March 11th, 2011 tsunami
• Field Work to study the September 29th, 2009 Samoa Tsunami
• 2004 and 2005 Indian Ocean tsunamis and earthquakes:
  1. The 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Initial Findings from Sumatra
  2. Tsunami Generation from the 2004 M=9.0 Sumatra Earthquake
  3. The December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Initial Findings on Tsunami Sand Deposits, Damage, and Inundation in Sri Lanka
  4. 30 March - 26 April 2005: USGS Scientists in Sumatra Studying Recent Tsunamis
• Tsunamis & Earthquakes
• Could It Happen Here? likelihood of a tsunami happening where you live
• General information posters:
  Tsunami Hazards in the Santa Barbara Channel
  Giant Hawaiian Underwater Landslides
• Papua New Guinea Tsunami Simulations (1998)
• Earthquake and Tsunami Potential in the Pacific Northwest: Cascadia
• Local Tsunamis & Earthquakes along Cascadia Subduction Zone