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Promotes public education about tsunamis for the people of Hawaii and the Pacific Region. Includes answers to commonly asked questions and tsunami photographs.
www.tsunami.org
Savage Earth: Waves of Destruction
Highlights include animated illustrations, articles, an "Ask the Experts" section, photographs, and video downloads.
www.pbs.org
Discover the power of waves and how fast they can travel. Includes animations and videos clips.
www.thirteen.org
Features some brief facts about these gigantic waves and how they are formed.
www.fema.gov
Learn all about tsunamis and how most form from undersea earthquakes. Get facts, stories, maps and pictures from National Geographic Kids magazine.
www.nationalgeographic.com
University of Southern California Tsunami Research Group
Shows where tsunamis have struck in the past and what they have done.
www.usc.edu
Discusses what tsunamis are, what causes them, and how warning systems can help save lives.
www.nws.noaa.gov
Diagrams showing travel time in hours plus an animation of the earthquake and generated tsunami. From the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. [English and Japanese]
staff.aist.go.jp
Wikipedia - 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake
Country by country reports of damage, historical and regional comparisons. Includes technical information on the quake and plate tectonics.
en.wikipedia.org
Unosat: Satellite Imagery for All
Maps, radar images and photographs from space. Includes before and after views of the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004.
unosat.web.cern.ch
Provides detailed instructions and resources for a student team project on the causes and consequences of the Asian tsunamis.
educatoral.com
West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
Features safety brochures and statistics about tsunami and earthquakes. Can be downloaded as PDF documents for printing.
wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov
Answers many questions about the topic. What does tsunami mean? How are they created? What happens to a tsunami as it approaches land?
www.ess.washington.edu
Surviving A Tsunami—Lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan
Booklet about how to survive a tsunami that includes stories of people who survived tsunamis in Chile, Hawaii, and Japan.
pubs.usgs.gov
A countdown of the five biggest tsunami events in recorded history.
fohn.net