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Posted: 9/17/2015 On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 18:54:33 ET, an 8.3 - magnitude earthquake struck Chile triggering other earthquake related incidents including tsunami waves in Hawaii and Southern California.

Moreover, tsunami waves in the Mediterranean need to travel only a very short distance before hitting the coast, reaching it with little advance warning.

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.

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

It would be easy to dismiss this as the latest boomlet in an industry famous for its cycles, were it not for a demographic tidal wave — the so - called silver tsunami — that has already begun: The retirement of America's 76 million baby boomers.

The quake's epicenter was 175 miles east of Kamaishi, and not far from the 9.0 - magnitude blast that sent tsunami waves racing toward Fukushima in 2011.

The tsunami's waves hit residences after a powerful earthquake in Natori, Miyagi prefecture (state), Japan, on March 11, 2011.

Smaller tsunami waves were observed on the coast or measured by ocean gauges in several other places.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

Founded in 1999 by New Zealand doctor Dave Jenkins to provide medical aid to the wave - rich but cash - poor islands around Sumatra, SurfAid already had teams in the region helping after December's tsunami.

Sometimes joy may be spontaneous and exuberant, washing over you like a tsunami wave as your baby sleeps in your arms and you hear her breathing.

And observers wondered if the governor had also shot himself in the foot with the Republicans, already under pressure after big GOP losses in the most recent elections, potentially spurred by an anti-Trump wave that could become a tsunami in 2018.

• Speaking of waves, Democrats will need a tsunami this year to take out Republican incumbent Chris Collins, who represents the most Republican congressional district in all of New York.

Most deaths and much of the destruction from last week's powerful earthquake in Japan were the handiwork of the tsunami: Many victims knew the waves were coming but could not escape or didn't try until it was too late.

These giant waves, caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and underwater landslides, are some of the deadliest natural disasters known; the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed over 230,000 people, a higher death toll than any fire or hurricane.

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 areIn 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 arein 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 arein such a way that reduces its amplitude, or height, and causes its energy to be dissipated over a large area.

Stefan Enoch at the Fresnel Institute in Marseille, France, and colleagues have shown that metamaterials could guide waves around offshore structures, protecting them from storms or tsunamis.

The tsunami of academic literature on tDCS has spurred a corresponding wave of media articles claiming jolts to the brain can improve memory, boost math skills and «bring out the genius in you.»

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

The wave swept away entire houses and was reminiscent of the tsunami waves that followed the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.

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.

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.

«Tsunami - like waves such as the one in Hernani will happen again,» he says.

«We computed this tsunami - like wave with our numerical models and found its energy to be very similar to waves from past tsunamis in the Pacific,» says Roeber.

With memories of the tsunami that devastated the region in 2004 still fresh, residents fled from the coasts, not knowing whether waves were on their way.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, issued alerts for Chile and Peru, and predicted that waves would strike Hawaii, New Zealand and Japan.

Waves 4.6 metres high were seen hitting in Chile and tsunami warnings are active for California and New Zealand.

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

Drawing on data streaming in from a multitude of sensors monitoring the world's water supply, for instance, the computer might learn to recognize changes in pressure, temperature, wave size and tides, then issue tsunami warnings, even though current science has yet to identify the constellation of variables associated with the monster waves.

In the tragic aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, scientists and warning centers are now better equipped to forecast and model these monstrous waves

(Tsunami, in fact, is a Japanese word meaning «harbor wave.»)

Laura Furgione, deputy assistant administrator of the National Weather Service, noted in a March 11 teleconference with reporters that the tsunami warnings had accurately forecast the 3:00 A.M. local arrival time of waves in Hawaii.

For instance, Tokyo has a 1 in 24 chance of a 5 - meter tsunami in the next millennium, while New York City faces 1 in 47 odds of similar waves.

The chances fall to 1 in 35 for 5 - meter tsunamis and 1 in 345 for devastating 25 - meter waves.

«The wave rises like an electronic tsunami that is expected to carry electrons smoothly in one direction,» Tsvelik said.

In some situations where it seems as though waves should advance freely, they just stop — like a tsunami halting in the middle of the oceaIn some situations where it seems as though waves should advance freely, they just stop — like a tsunami halting in the middle of the oceain the middle of the ocean.

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.

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.

The results show how tsunami waves could hit and inundate coastal areas in southern Italy and Greece.

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.

As Japan suffered the worst earthquake in the country's recorded history, tsunami waves fanned out across the Pacific Ocean at the speed of a jetliner

Judging from geological traces of two even older tsunami deposits, Koji Minoura, an Earth scientist at Tohoku University in Sendai, and his colleagues proposed in 2001 that giant waves visit the region about every 800 - 1,100 years (K. Minoura et al..

Sustained by gravity, they are long ocean waves that increase in amplitude (the tsunamis become larger) as water depth decreases.

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.

According to their numerical 3D models of an earthquake and resultant tsunami on the Pitas Point and Red Mountain faults — faults located offshore Ventura, Calif. — a magnitude 7.7 earthquake would result in many parts of the regional coastline being inundated a few kilometers inland by a tsunami wave, with inundation in places greater than that indicated by the state of California's current reference inundation line.

Now, computer simulations by Stanford scientists reveal that sound waves in the ocean produced by the earthquake probably reached land tens of minutes before the tsunami.

The Chilean earthquake also sent waves racing across the Pacific, inducing alerts throughout the Pacific Rim and causing evacuations in Hawaii, where officials remembered the 1960 earthquake, when a tsunami killed 61 people in the coastal town of Hilo.

The entire regional coastline sees a tsunami wave train that inundates many parts of the coastline in the region.

«Underwater landslides tend to create shorter period tsunami waves, and they tend to concentrate their energy in a small stretch of coastline,» said Grilli.

There is a 1 - in - 4,000 chance that the asteroid will hit Earth in 2880, Space.com reported, citing a 2003 study, which suggested that if 1950 DA crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, the blast could pack enough energy to trigger 200 - foot - high tsunami waves.