- Tsunami Photograph of the Month
See this and previous month's photos from the Pacific Tsunami Museum. (K)
- Tsunami Pictures
See photos of tsunamis and the damage they cause. (K)
- Pictures of 1992-1996 Tsunamis
Interactive map that lets you see photos from different tsunamis around the world. (K)
- Natural Hazards - Landslides, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes
Amazing photographs of these natural disasters from the National Geophysical Data Center. (K)
- Pacific Tsunami Museum
Public education, exhibits, oral histories, and the science of tsunamis in Hawaii and the Pacific Basin.
- NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Tsunami Program
Seeks to mitigate tsunami hazards to Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. (K)
- Tsunami - The Big Wave
Learn about these destructive ocean waves which are often mistakenly called tidal waves. (K)
- Savage Seas: The Crow's Nest
Explore the power of waves including tsunamis, freak waves, winds of trade, and more! Check out the wave machine and video clips from this PBS TV show too. (K)
- Savage Earth
This PBS series talks in-depth about the structure of the earth's crust and how and why it causes earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis. (K)
- Savage Earth: Waves of Destruction
This companion to the PBS series discusses how tsunamis are formed, what makes them dangerous, and has pictures and animations of how they work. (K)
- Explorezone.com
From earthquakes to comets, tsunamis to sunspots, this starting point for science exploration has news, animated references, and kids' book reviews. (K)
- National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program
Designed to reduce the impact of tsunamis through hazard assessment, warning guidance, and mitigation.
- Tsunami!
Information about the mechanisms of tsunami generation and propagation, the impact of tsunamis on humankind, and the Tsunami Warning System. Interactive, on-line. (K)
- General Tsunami Information
The physics of tsunamis, warning systems, recent events, and research. (K)
- Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Tsunami Warning Center
Responsible for providing warning of any tsunami impacting Russia national interests.
- British Columbia Tsunami Warning Plan
Outlines the procedures to be used in British Columbia to evaluate and disseminate information provided through the Tsunami Warning System.
- July 17, 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami
Geological studies, animation, and information from the USGS.
- Tsunami: The Big Wave
Information from the NASA Observatorium.
- Tsunami Program
Seeks to mitigate tsunami hazards to Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska.
- National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program
Designed to reduce the impact of tsunamis through hazard assessment, warning guidance, and mitigation.
- International Tsunami Information Center (ITIC)
Monitors the activities of the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific.
- National Geophysical Data Center Tsunami Database
Searchable database of information on tsunami events from 49 B.C. to the present in the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas, and the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.
- Science of Tsunami Hazards
International journal of the Tsunami Society.
- Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts
An asteroid striking the ocean could generate tsunami (tidal waves); what is the risk to coastal locations?
- Tsunami Society
Promotes the awareness and mitigation of tsunami hazards by sponsorship of workshops, meetings, and symposia, and by the dissemination of knowledge.
- University of Southern California Tsunami Team
Conducts research to learn how to mitigate the tsunami hazard in Southern California.
- Scientific American: Tsunami!
Its awesome fury cannot be diminished, but lessons learned from a rash of disasters, and a new way to track these killer waves, will help save lives. (K)
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Coastal Hydraulics Laboratory tsunami Research
- West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
Includes recent event and visiting information.
- July 17, 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami
Geological studies, animation, and information from the USGS.
- Tsunami Society
Promotes the awareness and mitigation of tsunami hazards by sponsorship of workshops, meetings, and symposia, and by the dissemination of knowledge.
- Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART)
See near real-time sea level data received from buoys deployed in the network of tsunami early warning buoys.
- Next Wave, The
Article from the California Academy of Sciences includes the causes of tsunamis, the Papua New Guinea tsunami, and the Pacific Northwest tsunami danger.
- Fact Sheet: Tsunamis
What to do before, during, and after, from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
- Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR)
http://ilikai.soest.hawaii.edu/JIMAR/jimar_research_themes.html Research on tsunamis and other long period ocean waves, climate, equatorial oceanography, fisheries oceanography, and tropical meteorology.
- Tsunamis & Earthquakes
General information on how local tsunamis are generated by earthquakes as well as animations, virtual reality models of tsunamis, and summaries of past research studies, from the USGS. http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/
A tsunami generated in the Aleutian Islands struck Hawaii in 1946.
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