USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program > Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center > Tsunami and Earthquake Research at the USGS
On our Tsunami and Earthquake Research web site, you will find general information on how local tsunamis are generated by earthquakes as well as animations, virtual reality models of tsunamis, and summaries of past research studies.
Learn more about tsunamis in the United States.
Learn more about our active research projects:
Probabilistic Forecasting of Earthquakes and Earthquake Effects in the Coastal Zone
Tsunami Hazards, Modeling, and the Sedimentary Record
U.S. West Coast and Alaska Marine Geohazards
Chiapas, Mexico: September 8, 2017
Preliminary simulation of the tsunami from the M=8.1 offshore intermediate-depth earthquake
Preliminary simulation of the tsunami from the M=9.0 subduction zone earthquake
Mentawai Islands, Indonesia: October 25, 2010
Preliminary simulation of the tsunami from the M=7.7 subduction zone earthquake
Bío Bío, Chile: February 27, 2010
Preliminary simulations of the tsunami from the M=8.8 subduction zone earthquake
Samoa Islands: September 29, 2009
Preliminary analysis of the tsunami from the M=8.1 Samoa Islands subduction zone earthquake, southwest Pacific Ocean
Tsunamis in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
How do various parameters that describe an earthquake influence the resulting local tsunami?
The 1952 and 2003 Tokachi-Oki Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Comparison of the September 25, 2003 M=8.3 and the 1952 M=8.1 Tokachi-Oki earthquakes, near Hokkaido, Japan
Animations of tsunami generated by September 8 magnitude 8.1 earthquake off Mexico
- USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center News
“Reducing Risk Where Tectonic Plates Collide—A USGS Plan to Advance Subduction Zone Science”
- USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center News
USGS publishes a new blueprint that can help make subduction zone areas more resilient
- USGS Featured Story
Reducing risk where tectonic plates collide
- U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2017-3024
Reducing risk where tectonic plates collide—U.S. Geological Survey subduction zone science plan
- U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1428
A submarine landslide source for the devastating 1964 Chenega tsunami, southern Alaska
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters 438