Web-based Resources for Teaching the Ocean System
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Tsunami Data and Information part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Tsunami Database is a global digital database containing information on more than 2000 tsunamis maintained by the National Geophysical Data Center. This is an interactive site; the user is asked ...
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory On-Line Data part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site provides access to a variety of oceanographic and atmospheric data products. Some of the products available include Ocean Buoy data, tsunami data, 1997-98 El Nino sea level for the US West ...
Tsunami Generation Animation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This QuickTime animation by Professor Miho Aoki at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Art Department clearly illustrates how a tsunami can be generated by a subduction zone earthquake. The ...
NOAA Indian Ocean Tsunami Animation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Quicktime visualization from NOAA concentrates on the wave propagation as it occurred in the Indian Ocean as a result of the Sumatra earthquake. This animation can be paused, rewound and ...
Indian Ocean Tsunami Quicktime Animation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This Quicktime animation, by Dr. Steven Ward at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California - Santa Cruz, shows the tsunami's progress across the Indian ...
NOAA East African Coast Tsunami Animation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This NOAA visualization tracks the tsunami waves until they reach the East African coast of Somalia. This Quicktime animation can be paused, rewound and advanced.
The Guardian Unlimited Special Tsunami Report part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This special report from The Guardian uses imagery from NOAA's tsunami animation collection and uses a stepwise progression to show a timeline of the tsunami's arrival at particular points ...
The Physics of Tsunamis part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from the University of Washington includes a Quicktime movie that shows the propagation of the earthquake-generated 1960 Chilean tsunami across the Pacific Ocean. The page also describes ...
Coastal Inundation Animation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This short QuickTime animation by Professor Miho Aoki at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Art Department shows what happens when a coastal town can be inundated by a tsunami. This visualization is ...