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tsunamis & storm surges

An atmospheric river drenches California with heavy rain in 2019.
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Atmospheric Rivers Spur High-Tide Floods on U.S. West Coast

by Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright 17 December 202130 January 2024

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

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 14 October 202129 March 2023

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

Tim Hornyak, Science Writer 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

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer 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

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer 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

Aaron Sidder, freelance science writer by Aaron Sidder 26 June 202030 August 2022

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 20205 June 2023

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.

In September 2009, a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 8.1 earthquake in the Tonga Trench inundated towns in American Samoa.
Posted inScience Updates

Sensor Network Warns of Stealth Tsunamis

by B. Fry, S.-J. McCurrach, K. Gledhill, W. Power, M. Williams, M. Angove, D. Arcas and C. Moore 26 May 20206 June 2022

A next-generation network of seismic and wave sensors in the southwestern Pacific will warn coastal residents of an approaching tsunami before they see the wave.

A continuously telemetered mountaintop GNSS station located on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state
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Seismic Sensors in Orbit

by T. I. Melbourne, D. Melgar, B. W. Crowell and W. M. Szeliga 26 December 201923 February 2023

Navigation satellites are enabling high-precision, real-time tracking of ground displacements, supplementing traditional methods for monitoring and assessing earthquakes.

A mangrove forest next to a river in Puerto Rico
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Hurricanes Hit Puerto Rico’s Mangroves Harder Than Florida’s

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 12 December 201910 February 2022

The scale and pattern of damage to the Puerto Rican forests suggest a complex interplay between wind, land, and sea.

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