Sentences with phrase «tsunami research»

Updated, Dec. 27, 5:13 p.m. In the decade since a great sub-sea earthquake off Sumatra swept the Indian Ocean and killed more than 230,000 people, Costas Synolakis, the director of the Tsunami Research Center at the University of Southern California, has been one of my go - to guides to efforts to gird societies against such hazards.

The simulation was produced by the same National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration facility in Seattle (NOAA / PMEL / Center for Tsunami Research) that raced to calculate where the tsunami from the great Indian Ocean earthquake of 2004 would exact its worst toll.

Costas Synolakis, director of the Tsunami Research Center at the University of Southern California, is one of the world's leading specialists on the interactions of earthquakes and oceans.

In many ways, tsunami research means reading waves much like the pages of a book.

Okal said his research was strongly influenced by his 20 - year collaboration with Costas Synolakis, director of the Tsunami Research Center at the University of Southern California.

Yet another hypothesis comes from Costas Synolakis, director of the Tsunami Research Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who thinks that the shaking land may have caused water to vibrate, «like a plunging wavemaker.»

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At Save the Children, she built a media program in a newly created public affairs department, and led the U.S. agency's media response to major humanitarian crises, including post-9 / 11, the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Haiti Earthquake as well as the agency's first advocacy - awareness campaign, Every Mother, Every Child and its signature research report, The State of the World's Mothers.

The onlooker, Chen Yunji, a 34 - year - old computer scientist and founding technical adviser of Cambricon Technologies here, explains that traditional processors, designed decades before the recent tsunami of artificial intelligence (AI) research, «are slow and energy inefficient» at processing the reams of data required for AI.

A mass of marine debris discovered in a giant sinkhole in the Hawaiian islands provides evidence that at least one mammoth tsunami, larger than any in Hawaii's recorded history, has struck the islands, and that a similar disaster could happen again, new research finds.

Unlike a GPS method proposed last year, which detects seismic waves transmitted through the Earth's crust to distant receivers, the new ground - based system takes real - time measurements of vertical ground motion — the type of fault movement more likely to produce tsunamis (Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029 / 2006JB004640).

The German - Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS) is being developed by a team led by Jörn Lauterjung of the National Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, Germany.

This means a local earthquake or eruption within Marsili would be sufficient to cause the seamount's flank to collapse, triggering a tsunami that would strike the coast of southern Italy (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029 / 2009GL041757).

«You're going to have great earthquakes on planet Earth, and you're going to have great tsunamis,» said Rhett Butler, a geophysicist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and lead author of the new study published online in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Like many scientists in Japan, Tamura is both anxious over disrupted research plans and heartbroken at the human toll of the earthquake and the ensuing tsunami, which killed thousands of people and left nearly half a million homeless.

No need for $ 11 million for tsunami warning, it says — it will keep only one warning center open and eliminate support for preparedness and innovation research.

OCEAN MOTION The 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan (forecast shown) was fueled by both the horizontal and vertical motion of the seafloor, new research suggests.

The research identified landslides along the submerged margin of the North American continent as the leading potential source of dangerous tsunamis to the East Coast.

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.

The team's research, supported by the National Science Foundation and a NASA graduate fellowship, began with a study of coastal lake sediments in Japan to establish long - term records of tsunami flooding.

Nearly 300 species have appeared on the shores of Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast attached to tsunami debris, marine biologists from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Williams College and other institutions reported in the journal Science on Thursday.

Looking for tsunami records in a sea cave was not something that would have occurred to Horton, and he says Daly's professional generosity — archaeologists are careful about who gets near their digs — and his own and Rubin's openness to insights from other disciplines made the research possible.

«We found a very distinct signature in the GPR data that indicated a tsunami and confirmed it with independent records detailing a tsunami in the area 900 years ago,» explained lead author Alexander Simms, an associate professor in UCSB's Department of Earth Science and the campus's Earth Research Institute.

The world - famous Australian reef is providing an effective barrier against landslide - induced tsunamis, new research shows.

Just how much energy would be absorbed and what the extent of damage could be done by rising sea levels and tsunamis or king tides is the subject of future research.

This is because the coast at this time was much closer to the source of the tsunamis, said lead author of the paper, Associate Professor Jody Webster, from the Geocoastal Research Group at the University of Sydney.

Rossetto's research aims to understand how tsunamis behave as they sweep ashore and how to make coastal infrastructure more resistant to their devastating effects.

But research in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction suggests other nations in known tsunami risk areas have not yet followed suit.

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.

The reports, published as a focus section in the September - October 2015 issue of Seismological Research Letters (SRL), also provide an update on how well the Initiative's instruments are operating, including a look at how seafloor pressure monitors can detect tsunamis in the region.

His main research interests are in the development and application of probabilistic concepts and methods to civil and marine engineering, including: structural reliability; life - cycle cost analysis; probability - based assessment, design, and multi-criteria life - cycle optimization of structures and infrastructure systems; structural health monitoring; life - cycle performance maintenance and management of structures and distributed infrastructure under extreme events (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and floods); risk - based assessment and decision making; multi-hazard risk mitigation; infrastructure sustainability and resilience to disasters; climate change adaptation; and probabilistic mechanics.

The devastating 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and resulting nuclear disaster in Japan had a high mental health impact — with some effects persisting several years later, according to a comprehensive research review in the January / February issue of the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, published by Wolters Kluwer.

According to Shosei Abe of Tokyo University's Earthquake Research Institute, capes are particularly prone to damage from tsunamis.

«We have pretty much technically solved the tsunami detection issue, but getting warnings down to the «last mile» is another story,» says Costas Synolakis, director of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Athens.

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.

• The US should initiate a research programme to develop deflection technologies and to better understand impact effects like tsunamis.

Indonesia's Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Center faces budget shortfall as international donor fund runs out

The 2 - year old Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J - PARC) in Tokai was built with tsunamis in mind.

This might explain why the Storegga slide off the coast of Norway 8000 years ago generated a massive tsunami, but a slide in the region 4500 years ago did not (Geophysical Research Letters, doi.org/cbq9).

These findings, published by a team of scientists led by U.S. Geological Survey geologist Rob Witter in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, present strong evidence for prehistoric tsunamis in the Aleutian Islands, and call for a reevaluation of earthquake and tsunami hazards along this part of the eastern Aleutian Subduction Zone.

In response to the Great East Japan earthquake and the devastating tsunamis that followed, Tohoku University established the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) in April 2012, and Suppasri became an associate professor at the Hazard and Risk Evaluation Research Division.

In 2016, another tsunami in Fukushima provided more data, allowing Suppasri and his team to further expand the area of their research.

One of her main research interests lies in analyzing seismic energy and how it can be related to other important aspects of the seismic source, and to identify seismic factors related to tsunami early warning and damage potential.

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Each Year 10 student wrote their own chapter; they researched, defined and explained a topic, such as, tsunamis, sea - level rise, and tides.

However, The Tsunami Society disagrees with this theory and research continues.

Eiko Otake's solo debut of A Body in Places began through research in 2014 at Fukushima, Japan, the tsunami - and nuclear - inflicted site.

Research back in the 1980's showed that a Tunguska - sized explosion over the Atlantic would have created one of the more memorable events in recent history as the tsunami kicked up by the explosion decimated coastal cities on both sides of the ocean.

Ninety percent of tsunamis occur in the Pacific, and that was where most research had been done.