Sentences with phrase «generated tsunami»

I.E. how long is such a lake vulnerable to say an impact generated tsunami, versus when it would have failed without any help.

The Storegga slide generated a tsunami in what is now the United Kingdom, but it does not appear to have had any climate connections.

Yet, especially for billions of coastal residents, these images, along with the earthquake - generated tsunami, are horrifying harbingers of future disruptions.

Rather than information — which «people have a right to know» — we get drama, like the pointless focus on the Fukushima power plant when the real story — and a genuine Black Swan — was the shear power and unusual nature of the earthquake that generated the tsunami.

«This information is often used in numerical modeling of landslide - generated tsunami waves.»

The Bungo Channel is tucked between two of Japan's main islands and is relatively sheltered from Nankai Trough - generated tsunamis.

Prior to the Thoku disaster, geophysicists were unsure of the role that deep normal faults could play in generating tsunamis.

At high velocities deep in the ocean, that dual pressure heaves water with forces powerful enough to generate a tsunami, as a similarly massive chunk of seafloor did in the 2011 event in Japan.

«When an earthquake generates a tsunami, it's because the sea floor went up and down,» he says.

The effect predicts that explosion - and impact - generated tsunamis will break on the continental shelf and thus will not cause large run - ups onto land.

It underlies the city of Ventura and runs offshore, and thus may be capable of generating tsunamis.

As the full extent of the temblor became clear, tsunami - monitoring buoys in the Pacific began confirming that the earthquake had generated tsunamis.

Collapses large enough to generate a tsunami occur somewhere in the Hawaiian Islands only about once every 100,000 years.

When that happens, it pushes water in front of it and that potentially generates the tsunami,» Grindlay says.

The vertical seafloor deformation from the earthquake model was used as input into the tsunami model to generate the tsunami.

The study site, Stardust Bay, faces a creeping part of the eastern Aleutian Subduction Zone, which is sandwiched between the rupture areas of historical earthquakes in 1946 and 1957 that generated tsunamis with devastating consequences to coastal communities around the Pacific Ocean.

However, an offshore subduction zone earthquake or an earthquake generated somewhere else around the Pacific Ocean will generate a tsunami, which is actually a series of waves.

Not exact matches

An example of a fake tsunami would be one that's computer - generated, like in a movie.

And the massive tsunamis they must have generated.

Now, researchers have come up with a way to more quickly gauge a big quake's magnitude and thus provide faster, more accurate tsunami warnings: by measuring the miniscule changes in Earth's gravitational field that are generated when massive slabs of the planet's crust shift by dozens of meters over the course of a few minutes.

An earthquake in the eastern Aleutian Trench big enough to generate a massive tsunami like the one in the study is expected to occur once every thousand years, meaning that there is a 0.1 percent chance of it happening in any given year — the same probability as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that struck Japan, according to Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, tsunami like the one in the study is expected to occur once every thousand years, meaning that there is a 0.1 percent chance of it happening in any given year — the same probability as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that struck Japan, according to Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.

The devastating tsunami that was generated in the Indian Ocean in 2004 after a magnitude 9 earthquake has been recorded as one of the deadliest natural disasters in recent history after it caused over 230,000 deaths in 14 countries.

Accounting for this lateral motion could explain why some earthquakes generate large tsunamis while others don't, the researchers report in a paper to be published in the Journal

«Severe sea states, such as tsunamis, rogue waves, storms, landslides, and even meteorite fall, can all generate acoustic - gravity waves,» Kadri says.

Scientists have long wondered what accounts for that precipitous dive, and why the massive earthquakes that generate long - ranging tsunamis at other subduction zones have not been recorded in the trench.

Instead, based on waves seen at Fukushima in 1960, generated by a magnitude - 9.5 quake across the Pacific in Chile, the plant's designers initially assumed that the worst - case scenario was a 3.1 - metre tsunami.

She and Woodruff tried using one of the most widely - cited models for the 1707 Nankai Trough earthquake to flood Lake Ryuuoo, but this only generated a six - foot tsunami that came nowhere near overtopping the 13 - foot barrier beach.

«When earthquake - induced uplift occurs on the sea floor, it displaces the entire column of water above it and generates the wave that we call a tsunami,» she adds.

«If we found more normal faults, we will be able to anticipate regions capable of generating large tsunamis,» Bécel says.

It's having the courage to say, «Why don't we just generate our own tsunamis in the lab?»

Tsunamis can be generated when the sea floor abruptly deforms and vertically displaces the overlying water.

A tsunami is a series of waves generated when water in a lake or the sea is rapidly displaced on a massive scale.

Rossetto has been leading a collaborative effort to create a better experimental setup for generating model tsunami waves in the lab, something she had been told was impossible due to tsunamis» extremely long wavelengths.

This subduction has created a collision zone with the potential to generate huge earthquakes and accompanying tsunamis, which happen when faulted rock abruptly shoves the ocean out of its way.

The new data are critical to understanding the causes of the large, shallow displacements during earthquakes that can generate devastating tsunamis.

Other notable shallow tsunami - generating earthquakes include the 1906 M8.5 earthquake near Esmeraldas, Ecuador, the 1922 M8.5 earthquake near Coquimbo, Chile, the 2001 M8.4 Arequipa, Peru earthquake, the 2007 M8.0 earthquake near Pisco, Peru, and the 2010 M8.8 Maule, Chile earthquake located just north of the 1960 event.

The new study supports the likelihood that these vertical fault zones have displaced the seafloor in the past, which means they could send out tsunami - generating pulses towards the nearby coastal mega-city of Los Angeles and neighboring San Diego.

The record indicates that 11 tsunamis were generated during that period by earthquakes along the Sunda Megathrust, the 3,300 - mile - long fault running from Myanmar to Sumatra in the Indian Ocean.

As a huge mass of displaced seawater — the start of a tsunami — moves through the Earth's magnetic field, electric fields are generated, which in turn induce secondary magnetic fields.

A new study of the hazards posed by impact - generated waves suggests that coastlines face substantial risks of being slammed by tsunamis from asteroid spla

Japan's Port and Airport Research Institute has a flume to mimic tsunamis, built to generate one wall of water instead of a steady onslaught of waves.

A team of European researchers have developed a model to simulate the impact of tsunamis generated by earthquakes and applied it to the Eastern Mediterranean.

«We simulate tsunami generation by introducing earthquake - generated displacements at either the sea bed or the surface,» explains Samaras.

Many of the theories and concepts about these waves are similar to those that are applicable to other types of surface waves, in particular, tsunamis, and waves generated by the fall of a meteorite.

Though not as frequent as in the Pacific and Indian oceans, tsunamis also occur in the Mediterranean, mainly due to earthquakes generated when the African plate slides underneath the Eurasian plate.

Large, ocean - impacting asteroids could generate enough power to trigger a tsunami, but the wave's energy would likely dissipate as it traveled and eventually break when it met a continental shelf.

Early results from NEPTUNE Canada include seismometer readings from the Chilean earthquake in February, and bottom - pressure sensor results that tracked the small tsunami waves it generated.

«Fortunately, these catastrophic earthquakes don't happen frequently, but we can input these site specific characteristics into computer models — such as those made possible with the CEES cluster — in the hopes of identifying acoustic signatures that indicates whether or not an earthquake has generated a large tsunami.»

Research has shown that the faults in the Ventura basin in Southern California are capable of generating earthquakes of magnitude 7 or greater as well as significant local tsunamis.

Research has also shown that tsunamis generated locally by faulting and landslides offshore California can impact the California coastline in a matter of minutes.