NOAA’s Visualizations of the Honshu Tsunami

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The NOAA Center for Tsunami Research has released their initial visualizations of this morning’s Honshu Tsunami event.

The graphics display forecast results, showing qualitative and quantitative information about the tsunami, including tsunami wave interaction with ocean floor bathymetric features, and neighboring coastlines. Tsunami model amplitude information is shown color-coded according the scale bar.

While the earthquake and tsunami were devastating, the plots show an interesting beauty to the event.

via NOAA Center for Tsunami Research – Tsunami Event – March 3, 2011 Honshu.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .