Tag: tsunamis

What to know about Vanuatu, the Pacific island nation struggling to recover from a massive earthquake

EARTHQUAKES
A search expanded on Thursday for those killed or trapped alive by an earthquake in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, as rescue workers arriving from abroad fanned out through the capital, Port Vila, encountering flattened...

Russian oil spill contaminates 50km of Black Sea beaches

GEOLOGY
Russia Wednesday expanded an operation to clean up thousands of tonnes of oil that spilt into the sea and contaminated 50 kilometers of beaches after tanker ships were wrecked in a storm. An aging Russian oil tanker broke up...

NASA researchers detect tsunamis by their rumble in the atmosphere

EARTH
New hazard-monitoring technology uses GPS signals to go wave-hunting in the Pacific Ring of Fire. GUARDIAN's long-term objective is to augment early warning systems. and...

Underwater tsunamis created by glacier calving cause vigorous ocean mixing

TSUNAMIS
Scientists on a research vessel in Antarctica watched the front of a glacier disintegrate and their measurements "went off the scale." As well as...

Global tsunamis driven by underwater volcanic eruptions

TSUNAMIS
In 1883, there was a volcanic eruption so large it killed tens of thousands of people. It expelled so much ash that, for a...

The plate boundary between Africa and the Iberian Peninsula could cause large tsunamis

EARTH
A new study led by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona and the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)...

New research could provide earlier warning of tsunamis

TSUNAMIS
A new method of detecting mega earthquakes, which picks up on the gravity waves they generate by using deep-learning models created at Los Alamos...

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