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The Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART® II) tsunami buoy.. The NOAA Center for Tsunami Research (NCTR), [1] located at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, Washington, performs research in support of tsunami forecast models to increase the speed and accuracy of operational forecasts and warnings, tsunami inundation models to predict tsunami impacts ...
Atwater has spent much of his career studying the likelihood of large earthquakes and tsunamis in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. In 2005, he published a book with others, "The Orphan Tsunami of 1700," that summarizes the evidence for an 8.7–9.2 M w megathrust earthquake in the Pacific Northwest on 26 January 1700, known as the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.
But the Seattle and Tacoma faults are probably the most serious earthquake threat to the populous Seattle–Tacoma area. A 2002 study of bridge vulnerability estimated that a magnitude 7 earthquake on the Seattle Fault would damage approximately 80 bridges in the Seattle–Tacoma area, [30] whereas a magnitude 9 subduction event would damage ...
In 2001, the Wave Research Laboratory was awarded a $4.8 million grant to study tsunamis by the National Science Foundation. [4] The remodeled portion of the facility, the Tsunami Wave Basin, was completed in 2003. [5] In 2007, the foundation granted the laboratory $1.1 million to study storm surges and other waves related to hurricanes. [6]
The findings from the study by the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophy Study finds 'rare but real risk' of tsunami threat to parts of Alaska's largest ...
TOKYO – A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook parts of southern Japan on Monday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake was reported about 7 miles to the east ...
One of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami marks its 20th anniversary on Dec. 26 Indian Ocean tsunami two decades ago left 230,000 dead and a lasting ...
One study of seismic vulnerability of bridges in the Seattle – Tacoma area [4] estimated that an M 7 earthquake on the Seattle or Tacoma faults would cause nearly as much damage as a M 9 subduction earthquake. Because the Seattle and Tacoma faults run directly under the biggest concentration of population and development in the region, more ...