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Maui Now
April 20, 2018
The purpose of tsunami awareness month is to raise awareness and educate the public about tsunamis. What is a tsunami? A tsunami is ALWAYS a series of waves. The first wave may not be the largest in the series. They are created when an abrupt disturbance displaces a large amount of water.
Earth.com
April 13, 2018
“In absolute terms, Hawaii is by far the highest risk area on the globe for tourism risk to tsunamis, as it can be affected by many possible tsunami sources from Japan, Alaska, South America and other regions,” said Schaefer. “Most of the loss would be monetary, however, due to significant investment inÃâà...
Government Technology
April 13, 2018
The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency spent $15,000 to $20,000 for this month's tsunami preparedness and awareness month that included nearly 13,000 brochures and 10-foot tall banners for each of the neighbor island counties, with individual island maps that identify significant tsunamis for eachÃâà...
The cordova Times
April 7, 2018
It will surely encourage you to be prepared because tsunamis are dangerous, even though this last one in Cordova never materialized. With proper planning, preparation and evacuation, Cordovans can mitigate that tsunami danger. Learn everything you can about tsunamis. And, as always. Be prudent.
Los Angeles Times
April 5, 2018
The worst tsunamis tend to occur on a different type of system, known as a subduction zone earthquake, in which faults produce a great deal of vertical motion. Subduction zone earthquakes are the kind that produced massive, deadly flooding in Japan in 2011 and happened off the coast of Oregon andÃâà...
Earth.com
April 4, 2018
A new GPS-based method that can model tsunamis could help coastal areas in Japan better prepare for potential disaster. Following the catastrophic 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Japanese government asked for hazard assessment research that would identify the worst case scenarios forÃâà...
Science Daily
April 3, 2018
As she explains, after the unexpectedly devastating 2011 quake and tsunami, Japan's government called for hazard-assessment research to define the nation's worst-case scenarios for earthquakes and tsunamis. Baranes notes, "The government guideline has focused attention on the Nankai Trough.
Daily Astorian
April 3, 2018
Most research about past subduction zone quakes and tsunamis has found an average interval of 500 to 530 years in this area, but more often in the vicinity of Coos Bay and Northern California. The most recent local tsunami in January 1700 was close to a worst-case scenario, according to a 2003 study.
Phys.Org
April 3, 2018
A new method could help scientists understand how wildlife populations are affected by major natural events such as hurricanes, severe winters, and tsunamis. The approach suggests the 2011 tsunami had an unexpectedly limited impact on organisms living in the intertidal zone of the Japanese shoreline.
Times Colonist
April 1, 2018
The City of Victoria is hosting a Be Tsunami Smart information session as part of B.C. Tsunami Preparedness Week, April 9 at City Hall. Although tsunamis are rare, it is important for residents to understand what a tsunami is, the impact of a tsunami — and what to do in the event of a tsunami warning.
Colombo Page
March 31, 2018
Mar 30, Colombo: The UNDP Country Offices across Asia and the Pacific region are implementing a program funded by the supported by the Government of Japan to strengthen school preparedness for tsunamis in Asia and the Pacific and five Sri Lankan schools will take part in the program. The 2004Ãâà...
Science Daily
March 31, 2018
"This unexpectedly limited impact could be because the tsunami only lasted a few hours. A storm in 2006 off the coast of Tohoku lasting several days has a similar impact on the tidal zone species as the 2011 tsunami. Such storms occur much more frequently than tsunamis," said Takashi Noda of HokkaidoÃâà...
South Beach Bulletin
March 31, 2018
The report indicates a tsunami after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake would give people along the coast just 15 to 20 minutes to get to high ground before the wave hits. The maps, generated by using computer models of earthquake-caused tsunamis from nearby seismic forces, become useful in planning andÃâà...
KUAM.com
March 30, 2018
Be prepared for a Tsunami. That's the message from Lt. Governor Ray Tenorio as he signed a proclamation declaring Tsunami Preparedness Week. Homeland Security and Civil Defense officials will launch a public awareness campaign to help inform residents about what to do in the event of a disaster.
Chinook Observer
March 29, 2018
Meanwhile, Long Beach has dropped a plan to build a tsunami safe haven on hold. The preliminary design called for a 32-foot tall earth and concrete berm next to Long Beach Elementary School. The flat top of this man-made hill would have offered refuge for townspeople and visitors who otherwiseÃâà...
CNBC
March 27, 2018
It's a floating pod with a glass ceiling that allows the guests to stargaze at night. The pods are designed to accommodate two or three people and come complete with beds and bathrooms. The pod can fit up to 100 people safely in the event of a tsunami. The hotel expects to have the pod rooms available toÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 26, 2018
The tsunami after the Japanese quake caused millions of dollars in damage at the harbors in Santa Cruz and Crescent City, Calif. Pridmore said the Chile- and Japan-connected tsunamis created surges of about 1 to 2 feet in Newport Beach, which she said is plenty to damage ports and harbors.
Government Technology
March 26, 2018
California's Tsunami Preparedness Week, from Monday, March 26 through Friday, March 30, aims to make sure residents and visitors know what to do if a tsunami threatens or hits the coast. Some communities ... Tsunamis are mammoth waves caused by underwater activity such as an earthquake. CoastalÃâà...
Curry Coastal Pilot
March 16, 2018
March 11 marked the seven-year-anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that destroyed most of Rikuzentakata before traveling around the globe to destroy Crescent City's harbor. While it would be hard to find someone locally who is unaware a tsunami destroyed most ofÃâà...
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 15, 2018
Now, scientists estimate that following the tsunami there were more than 10 times as much debris washing ashore in North America than what was measured before. People don't enjoy ... Increasing storm intensity may mean natural disasters like tsunamis will be bigger and have greater impacts. Murray isÃâà...
Prensa Latina
March 15, 2018
Called Caribe Wave 18, the exercise will test the rapid warning system against tsunamis and other coastal risks, created in 2005 under the auspices of the Intergovernmental ... The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center will send fictitious warning messages to the 47 participating countries and territories.
NHK WORLD
March 15, 2018
About 70 percent of tsunamis around the world have occurred in the Asia Pacific. But people in that region haven't learned enough from these tragic experiences. "Tohoku University provides world-renowned, world-class expertise, not only on research, but also practical involvement in many tsunamiÃâà...
SurferToday
March 14, 2018
Tsunamis, also misleadingly called tidal waves, are high-energy waves mostly generated by underwater tectonic activity. They represent one of the most powerful signs of strength Nature is capable of. Take a look at a comprehensive collection of facts about tsunamis: 1. Tsunami is a Japanese wordÃâà...
KHON2
March 10, 2018
HONOLULU (KHON2) - With picturesque weather most of the time, it's easy to forget the very real threat that looms during hurricane season, or when our beautiful oceans can turn deadly with just hours of warning in a tsunami. Hawaii hasn't been hit by a major hurricane since Iniki struck Kauai in 1992,Ãâà...
The Australian
March 9, 2018
The tsunami's seventh anniversary falls tomorrow, and in the emotive lead-up to it, Sato is speaking with Review and Australian theatre company Polyglot. The latter has worked closely with vulnerable residents in the town since 2011, when 70 per cent of its buildings were destroyed in minutes. Sato, in hisÃâà...
Atlas Obscura
March 9, 2018
One particularly well-documented tsunami stone stands in the village of Aneyoshi on Japan's northeastern coast. Aneyoshi had endured two devastating tsunamis, one in 1896 and another in 1933. The stone was placed shortly after the 1933 tsunami, a four-foot-high marker located just above the tsunami'sÃâà...
KHON2
March 8, 2018
With picturesque weather most of the time, it's easy to forget the very real threat that looms during hurricane season, or when our beautiful oceans can turn deadly with just hours of warning in a tsunami. Hawaii hasn't been hit by a major hurricane since Iniki struck Kauai in 1992, so there's a wholeÃâà...
TVNZ
March 8, 2018
Devastating megathrust tsunami striking NZ east coast a once every 7000 year prospect, says geophysicist .... "The tsunami evacuation zones are designed to be sufficient to encompass even very rare tsunamis, including some events that we do not even know for sure if they can happen but choose to be cautious about theÃâà...
Newshub
March 7, 2018
Civil Defence is advising New Zealanders to be aware of tsunami evacuation zones following public reaction to a shocking tsunami simulation. The computer simulation was based ... "Both of these caused tsunamis that affected about 100km of the coast of the East Cape. In the most strongly affected places,Ãâà...
RT
March 7, 2018
Japan has created its first floating pod hotel as one possible solution to the country's risk of earthquakes and tsunamis. The project is designed to protect guests in the case of a sudden tidal influx. The novel capsule hotel was launched at the Dutch-themed park, Huis Ten Bosch, in Nagasaki on Monday.
Barbados Today
March 6, 2018
However, she stressed that this did not signify a tsunami threat. She also emphasized that tsunamis warnings issued by the Barbados MET Office would not be transferred to the public via Whatsapp, but through official sources, including the Barbados Government Information Service. Ms Hinds explainedÃâà...
9news.com.au
March 5, 2018
New Zealand is at risk of tsunami up to 12m high if a “megathrust” earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean, but Australia would be shielded from the waves. ... “I don't think because of the megathrust that we have in the middle of the Pacific we will get large tsunamis on the east coast of Australia,” he toldÃâà...
Nation News
March 2, 2018
On Saturday, March 10, Director of the DEM, Kerry Hinds, will address a UWI Cave Hill panel discussion also on the topic: Disaster Preparedness - Monster Hurricanes, Tsunamis and Earthquakes, at St. Ann's Anglican Church, Parris Hill, St Joseph, beginning at 5 p.m.. The journey to tsunami recognitionÃâà...
Science Daily
March 1, 2018
While this may not be surprising, the sheer energy of the waves and their ability to move such large boulders was -- and this evidence proves that not only tsunami but also storm waves can move such large objects. "These data will be useful to engineers and coastal scientists working in other locations,"Ãâà...
R & D Magazine
March 1, 2018
The resulting Mw 9.1–9.3 megathrust earthquake generated a tsunami that was up to 30m high along the northern coast of Sumatra. The Sumatra earthquake ruptured the greatest fault length of any recorded earthquake and triggered a series of tsunamis, killing up to 280,000 people in 14 countries, andÃâà...
Long Beach Press Telegram
March 1, 2018
We worry about everything we can think of, and it's a lengthy litany that ranges from various and intricate death scenarios to where we're going to get our vacuum cleaner fixed if Fred Hall's repair shop on Seventh Street closes. This month, we're having to add tsunamis to our fretting. We had planned onÃâà...
Professional Engineering
February 28, 2018
Huge earthquake-generated waves devastate coastal communities when they hit land, said water engineer David McGovern. “Tsunamis don't happen very often, and when they do happen they tend to destroy everything – that is the nature of tsunamis.” In 2004, the Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian OceanÃâà...
Express.co.uk
February 20, 2018
But researchers have now warned there could be more to come with sea slime potentially triggering tsunamis that could strike Europe. One fifth of all tsunamis can be traced back to underwater landslides, according to a new study, as layers of slime build up thanks to microscopic fossils that line the oceanÃâà...
Live Science
February 14, 2018
For example, prior work suggested that the Storegga megaslide triggered a tsunami that deluged surrounding coasts with waves up to 65 feet (20 meters) high. [The 8 Biggest Tsuanamis in History]. One-fifth of all tsunamis may be caused by submarine megaslides, said study lead author Morelia Urlaub,Ãâà...
The Weather Channel
February 13, 2018
It should be noted that the impacts from higher-end meteotsunamis are not nearly close to the catastrophic earthquake-induced tsunamis observed in Japan in 2011 and Indonesia in 2004. Lake Michigan and Lake Erie typically have the most frequent meteotsunami activity, according to Dr. Chin Wu,Ãâà...
The Verge
February 6, 2018
The warning was a mistake — the result of a technical glitch — but the prospect of a tsunami striking New York City or New Orleans raises the question: how likely is a tsunami in these parts of the US, anyway? Tsunamis can form when powerful quakes jiggle the seafloor up and down. The magnitude 9Ãâà...
The Straits Times
December 31, 1999
However, a long preparatory period provides a great opportunity for a political tsunami to take shape, and three mini tsunamis are already in the making. First and foremost, a tsunami from Malaysian workers in Singapore. After the election commission fixed the polling date on a weekday on May 9, thereÃâà...
Phys.Org
December 31, 1999
The new study found that because tsunamis leave sandy layers of varying grain sizes in their wake, they can influence the distribution of heart urchin burrows. Burrows made in larger-grained sand deposits tend to collapse, so the urchins were largely restricted to areas where the 2011 Tohoku tsunamiÃâà...
The Straits Times
December 31, 1999
"What Widjo presented was a general scenario of a tsunami. In any scenario, there must be assumptions, data, formulation and estimates," said Henny. "Research into tsunami modelling is important because our country is prone to disasters, including tsunamis, because our geographical location is withinÃâà...
Hawaii News Now
December 31, 1999
That's the message the city wants to share this month — Tsunami Awareness Month. The city plans held a news conference Wednesday morning to discuss preparedness efforts and what families can do to ensure they're ready for a tsunami threat. "We've got to be ready every time," Mayor Kirk Caldwell.
North Coast Journal (blog)
December 31, 1999
More than 100 people were killed by the magnitude-9.2 quake and ensuing tsunamis — some as high as 100 feet — which caused $311 million in ... This week marks not just that tragic anniversary but also Tsunami Preparedness Week and tomorrow the National Weather Service and the county willÃâà...
KXRO Newsradio
December 31, 1999
“In spite of the fact this information may seem familiar we think it's even more imperative than ever to help people understand the advantages of having a NOAA Weather Alert Radio, the difference in tsunami alert levels, near source vs distance source tsunamis and when the AHAB sirens will be activated.
Big Island Now
December 31, 1999
April is Tsunami Awareness Month. Hawai'i residents and visitors should be aware of the dangers a tsunami can present to low-lying island areas. While some tsunamis are caused by earthquakes hundreds of miles away and give ample warning, a temblor near the Hawaiian Islands could provide onlyÃâà...
Port Townsend Leader
December 31, 1999
“Given how events unfolded, we think it's even more imperative to help people understand the difference in tsunami alert levels, near-source versus distant-source tsunamis, when tsunami sirens are activated and the advantages of being signed up for local alerting systems as well as owning a (NationalÃâà...
Science Daily
December 31, 1999
European tourists are more frequently going to places all over the world with significant tsunami risk, researchers have found. A global tourism destination risk index for tsunamis was released today at the 2018 Annual Conference of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in Vienna, based on a study ledÃâà...
