Tag: tsunamis

The last time it was legal, exports of sea sand destroyed dozens of Indonesian islands—now, the ban is being lifted

EARTH
Over 20 years ago, then Indonesian president Megawati Soekarnoputri banned the export of sea sand from her archipelago nation. The ban was in response to the widespread environmental and economic damage it was causing. Unchecked sea sand...

Terahertz pulses induce chirality in a non-chiral crystal

MINERALS
Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed onto their mirror images through any combination of rotations or translations, much like the distinct left and right hands of a human. In chiral crystals, the spatial arrangement...

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...

Recent articles

spot_img

© Geology Science 2021