Nasa (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
For the first time, a group of scientists working in the Kuril Islands off the east coast of Russia has documented the scope of tsunami-caused erosion and found that a wave can carry away far more sand and dirt than it deposits. (University of Washington press release)
Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, though there are still ways to improve the warning and evacuation process, according to a team of researchers that traveled to Samoa last month.
Newswise (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Community-based education and awareness programs minimized the death toll from the recent Samoan tsunami, according to a team of researchers that traveled to Samoa last month. Funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, the team collected data to document the impacts of the earthquake and ensuing tsunami that occurred on Sept. 29.
Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- Samoa's tsunami detection, monitoring and warning system works well and could not have prevented the more than 100 deaths caused by the devastating tsunami that hit the region on September 29, a major international study has found.
CleanTechies Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
As the world warms, how different societies fare in dealing with rising seas and changing weather patterns will have as much to do with political, social, and economic factors as with a changing climate. Following the disastrous tsunami of December 2004, the government of Bangladesh embraced upgraded storm-alert systems that warn communities in a coordinated way [...] Rating: 0.0/ 5 (0 votes cast)...
British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A natural-hazards expert talks about surveying the destruction in Samoa.
Cempaka Eco Green (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
COP15 Copenhagen , Michael von Bülow, 20/03/2009 12:40 Most people know the Maldives as a tropical paradise for holiday makers. But behind the white beaches and glittering waves is a poor population which has lived in close symbiosis with the sea for hundreds of years - but now has to look elsewhere for a place to live, as the ocean is steadily eating away at their islands. When the tsunami hit...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
GEOLOGY covers a range of topics, including tsunami geomorphology, sag pond deposits, ooids and seawater chemistry, hillslope weathering, volcanoes and the nature of volcanic eruptions, minerals, marine sediments, paleoseismic faults, oxygen isotope records, bolide impact and banded iron formations, trace metal pollution from mining and metallurgy, tidal cycles, and Barchan dunes. The GSA TODAY science...
The Audacious Epigone (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Upon finding out that two of the three winners of this year's Nobel prize in physiology or medicine are women, Steve Sailer points out what he sees as encouraging sex trends in accomplishment : This announcement reflects an on-going trend in which the top female scientific talent is concentrating in the life sciences and leaving the lifeless sciences, physics and chemistry, to the boys. ... This strikes...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
For kids, ringing a neighbor's doorbell, yelling "trick or treat," and receiving candy brings plenty of smiles, but for many the real fun of Halloween happens when you turn your plastic jack-o'-lantern candy bucket upside down, unleashing a candy tsunami onto a tabletop or bedspread. From there it's easy to pick out the holiday-inappropriate items that somehow made it into the mix -- kids...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Image 1: In the summer of 2006, this area strewn with rocks and logs near the shore of Ainu Bay on Matua Island in the Kurils was covered by about 6 feet of sand and soil, about even with the top of the 6-foot-6 white rod in the center of the photo. When researchers had excavated there previously they did not encounter any of the boulders they later found exposed by the tsunami. Credit: Breanyn MacInnesImage...
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Coastal towns and cities in the northwest are woefully unprepared for a large-scale natural disaster. In response, geotechnical engineers are working to develop a series of tsunami evacuation buildings up and down the northwest coast. They would be the first buildings of their kind in the United States.
Newswise (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
For the first time, a group of scientists working in the Kuril Islands off the east coast of Russia has documented the scope of tsunami-caused erosion and found that a wave can carry away far more sand and dirt than it deposits.
Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
"There is a likely chance of tsunami waves reaching the shores of Israel," says Dr. Beverly Goodman of the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences at the University of Haifa following encompassing geoarchaeological research at the port of Caesarea. "Tsunami events in the Mediterranean do occur less frequently than in the Pacific Ocean, but our findings reveal a moderate rate of recurrence,"...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
[Remember that terrible tsunami? That was your fault] On December 26, 2004, the Indian Ocean tsunami crashed into the islands of the Maldives as a wave of devastation. Minster protesters in climate change call - Yorkshire Post MILLIONS of people will die unless the world's leading nations make a binding commitment to climate change, demonstrators were told on Saturday before they formed a wave encircling...
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