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Aerial view looking over a coastal island city
Posted inFeatures

A Cagey Approach to Speedy and Safe Seafloor Deployments

by Pascal Pelleau, Ronan Apprioual, Antony Ferrant and Daniel Aslanian 11 March 202228 April 2022

Researchers devised a simple way to deliver ocean bottom seismometers accurately to the seafloor to study ongoing seismic and volcanic activity near the islands of Mayotte.

Satellite image of Anak Krakatau, Indonesia, with one slope covered in sediment.
Posted inNews

Which Came First, the Eruption or the Landslide?

by Saima Sidik 25 February 202210 May 2022

Anak Krakatau’s eruption was accompanied by a devastating tsunami. But was the eruption to blame?

A large, fully loaded container ship arrives at a busy port in California.
Posted inNews

Rising Seas Boost Tsunami Impacts on Distant Shorelines

by Katherine Kornei 31 January 202231 January 2022

Modeling suggests that rising sea levels will render Southern California ports increasingly vulnerable to waves from distant-source tsunamis.

An atmospheric river drenches California with heavy rain in 2019.
Posted inNews

Atmospheric Rivers Spur High-Tide Floods on U.S. West Coast

by Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright 17 December 202117 December 2021

Researchers analyzed 36 years of data to understand how atmospheric rivers and other factors drive chronic coastal flooding.

A boat floats between flood buildings, with people walking on the sidewalks and across a bridge.
Posted inNews

For Venice’s Floodgates to Work, Better Forecasts Are Needed

by Damond Benningfield 14 October 202121 March 2022

Climate change increases massive storm surges, which may be more than Venice’s flood-control system can handle.

Meteotsunami in Ludington, Mich., on 13 April 2018
Posted inNews

Scientists Hope Atmospheric Modeling Can Predict Meteotsunamis

by Tim Hornyak 24 May 202117 May 2022

The first extensively documented air pressure–driven meteotsunami on one of the Great Lakes presents an opportunity to use existing weather models to predict when these potentially deadly waves will strike.

A yellow DART buoy being lowered overboard
Posted inNews

Ocean Sensors Record Rare Triple Tsunami near New Zealand

by Katherine Kornei 29 April 202116 March 2022

A new suite of DART buoys in the South Pacific Ocean spotted waves set in motion by three tsunamigenic earthquakes that occurred within hours of one another.

The toppled remains of a building on the shore of Palu Bay in Indonesia following a 2018 earthquake and tsunami
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Redes Sociales Ayudan a Revelar la Causa del Tsunami en Indonesia en el 2018

by Aaron Sidder 21 October 20206 October 2021

Videos de Twitter y YouTube ayudaron a los científicos a descubrir los mecanismos físicos que generaron el gran tsunami en Palu Bay después de un terremoto de magnitud 7.5.

The toppled remains of a building on the shore of Palu Bay in Indonesia following a 2018 earthquake and tsunami
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Social Media Helps Reveal Cause of 2018 Indonesian Tsunami

by Aaron Sidder 26 June 202029 September 2021

Videos from Twitter and YouTube helped scientists tease out the physical mechanisms that generated the large tsunami in Palu Bay after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake.

Images capturing five moments in the sequence after a fluidized granular flow enters water
Posted inEditors' Highlights

The Ability of Pyroclastic Flows to Generate Tsunamis

by M. Pistolesi 11 June 202022 December 2021

Lab experiments of fluidized granular flows entering the water shed light on the dynamics of tsunami generation by fast-moving, pyroclastic density currents at volcanic islands or coastal volcanoes.

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