Tsunamis: sea waves caused by quakes, volcanoes, landslides and impacts.
Warnings and notices for the Pacific and Indian Oceans and Caribbean Sea.
Warnings and notices for the United States and Canada mainland.
From your About Geology Guide, an introduction to tsunamis and why it's OK to call them "tidal waves."
Geography Guide Matt Rosenberg compiles the best advice.
Tables for each ocean listing the deadliest tsunamis on record.
The U.S. Geological Survey publishes this valuable guide to what saved (and didn't save) peoples' lives in the great tsunami of 1960.
This 12-point scale of tsunami intensity was proposed in 2001 by Gerassimos Papadopoulos and Fumihiko Imamura.
This early six-point tsunami intensity scale was modeled after the scales used for earthquakes.
The National Weather Service has a program for communities on all coasts.
Geoscientist extraordinaire David Stevenson talks at a high level to his fellow physicists about earthquakes and tsunamis in the June 2005
Physics Today.
Great Britain's worst recorded flood was probably a tsunami; resources from Bath Spa University.
All about this province's part in the Pacific tsunami warning system. Find the PDF on this page of hazard plans.
The California Seismic Safety Commission, an independent state agency, takes tsunamis seriously and has survival advice for people and governments.
This site has a tsunami page that includes a useful bulletin board.
A fine presentation by the Center for Coastal and Land-Margin Research not just for Oregonians.
Research, modeling, and background on the threat to Cascadia—Oregon and Washington.
The great waves that followed the offshore earthquake of 18 November 1929 killed dozens of people in Canada's worst tsunami disaster. The collectionscanada.ca site reproduces historical documents from this forgotten event.
Serving the people of Hilo, Hawaii, world capital of tsunamis.
This University of Washington site, pitched at the educated reader, is full of general info and action advice.
The National Geophysical Data Center's tsunami database has CDs, books, and slides for teachers and researchers.
Search this database of 2,000 events by region, wave size, date, cause, or number of deaths. Presented by the National Geophysical Data Center.
This University of Southern California site has animations plus footage of tsunami damage around the world. Site is redesigned.
A site about this interagency, interstate program to deal with the tsunami threat is hosted by the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.
A leading center of wide-ranging tsunami research; includes many animations.
This Russian institute has good current info and lots of hardcore data.
A sound but sprawling site, worth exploring after you've learned the basics elsewhere.
The Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory has much current science, well explained.
This research got lots of publicity in April 2000 because tsunamis sounded so outlandish in the high Sierra. But this paper, published in
Geophysical Research Letters, gives you the whole sober scenario with some nice pictures too.
In this
Science News article, Sid Perkins describes a possible new method of detecting tsunamis from space by the dark stripes they create on the sea surface.
This exhaustive and colloquial site, part of a National Weather Service's field office in New Jersey, presents historical evidence for tsunamis in the 1800s and 1900s, many coinciding with hurricanes. A plausible hypothesis is presented for landslide triggering.
This agency has the most thorough list of links.
The best current news and some background about this spawning ground for tsunamis.
