NOAA has been busy today predicting and charting the results of the 8.8 Earthquake off the coast of Chile and the resulting tsunami waves.
The Chile tsunami was generated by a Mw 8.8 earthquake (35.846°S, 72.719°W ), at 06:34 UTC, 115 km (60 miles) NNE of Concepcion, Chile (according to the USGS). In approximately 3 hours, the tsunami was first recorded at DART® buoy 32412. Forecast results shown below were created with the NOAA forecast method using MOST model with the tsunami source inferred from DART® data. The tsunami waves first arrived at Valparaiso, Chile (approximately 330 km northeast from earthquake epicenter ) earlier than other tide gages, at 0708UTC, about 34 minutes after the earthquake.
On their website you can see the massive visualizations of the wave height, earthquake, propagation animations, offshore forecast amplitudes, and more.
What do you think of the visualizations?
via NOAA Center for Tsunami Research – Tsunami Event – February 27, 2010 Chile.
