Sentences with phrase «tsunami wave heights»

Retroactively, the models accurately predicted the seafloor uplift seen in the earthquake, which is directly related to tsunami wave heights, and also simulated sound waves that propagated within the ocean.

Not exact matches

«Taking advantage of the rising - sea - floor amplification effect, tsunami waves reaching 100 meters in height» — about 330 feet — «are possible,» Richardson said.

In a paper published in the journal Heliyon, Dr Kadri proposes that if we can find a way to engineer these waves, they can be fired at an incoming tsunami and will react with the wave in such a way that reduces its amplitude, or height, and causes its energy to be dissipated over a large area.

A tsunami wave of roughly 19 centimeters (7.5 inches) was measured at Amchitka Island, in the Aleutian Islands chain, though lesser heights were recorded at other islands, said National Tsunami Warning Center oceanographer Botsunami wave of roughly 19 centimeters (7.5 inches) was measured at Amchitka Island, in the Aleutian Islands chain, though lesser heights were recorded at other islands, said National Tsunami Warning Center oceanographer BoTsunami Warning Center oceanographer Bo Bahng.

But Fukushima Daiichi was doomed by a decision to plan for a maximum tsunami height of only 5.7 metres, well short of the wave of up to 15 metres that engulfed the plant on 11 March 2011.

These generators were inundated with water 45 minutes later when the 15 - metre tsunami swept over the sea wall, which had been built to withstand a maximum wave height of only 5.7 metres.

This graphic shows the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's predictions of the maximum heights of tsunami waves caused by the March 11 earthquake near Sendai, Japan.

Gary M. McMurtry of the University of Hawaii at Manoa and his colleagues conclude that the most likely way the shells could have reached such a lofty location was within the waves of a tsunami that attained the astonishing height of 300 meters along some Hawaiian coastlines.

More recently, an earthquake of magnitude of about 7.0 hit the Messina region in Italy in 1908, causing a tsunami that killed thousands, with observed waves locally exceeding 10 metres in height.

The focal points then forwarded the alert, which included information on the mock tsunami's arrival time and wave height, to coastal communities and emergency services.

This image shows how seismic waves play out when they reach the surface: This elevation map depicts the wave height of the tsunami triggered by the Sendai earthquake as it radiated through the Pacific Ocean.

Specifically, the team observed the height of waves near the coast, and studied the limitations and possible improvements of the existing system of tsunami warnings and advisories.

Anyone who is active in tsunami hazards would had known that far smaller earthquakes than the one that struck Japan generate waves producing inland flooding of up to six meters height about once every two years, on average, somewhere in the world.

There are a whole bunch of geologic variables that translate identical amounts of Tsunami energy into different wave heights a few miles apart.