The New York Times has a collection of breathtaking photos from various satellites before-and-after the recent Tsunami and Earthquake. Each photo-pair is connected to a slider so that you can wipe back and forth between the two and get a glimpse at the incredible damage mother-nature wrought upon Japan.
Satellite Photos – Japan Before and After Tsunami – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com.
The NOAA Center for Tsunami Research has released a video of the tsunami propagation in the Pacific Ocean.
Propagation of the March 11, 2011 Honshu tsunami was computed with the NOAA forecast method using MOST model with the tsunami source inferred from DART® data. From the NOAA Center for Tsunami Research, located at NOAA PMEL in Seattle, WA
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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.
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.
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