Tsunami links:

Jan McLaughlin, New Hampshire Science Education Consultant,

shares the following web resources related to the recent, catastrophic tsunami:

 

NASA Pictures of the Wave

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/indonesia_quake.html

 

NOAA Measures Wave height from Space

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2365.htm

 

Time of Waves to different location

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/indo20041226/TT.pdf

 

Height of Waves

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/indo20041226/max.pdf

 

Great multi-page animation about how it was created and where the

Tsunamis occurred from the BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4136289.stm

 

US Geological Survey Site about the initial quake - see links at bottom

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/

 

Pictures from Space -

14 Before and After Pictures - View each picture then click (after

button to see what it looked like AFTER the tsunami)

http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/

 

Wave Approaching Thailand Coast

http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/tsunami/waves_20041226/waves_20041226.html

 

Before and After views from Space - Thailand

http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/tsunami/Khao_Lak_20041229_20030113/Khao_Lak_20041229_20030113.html

 

Before and After views from Space - Indonesia

http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/tsunami/Aceh_20041229_20030110/Aceh_20041229_20030110.html

 

Before and After views from space - Nicobar Island, India

http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/tsunami/Katchall_20041228_20040710/Katchall_20041228_20040710.html

 

Animation of the waves -

Tsunami Animation - Asia

http://staff.aist.go.jp/kenji.satake/animation.gif

 

Tsunami Animation - Whole earth

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/video/tsunami-indonesia12-2004.qt

 

Pacific Tsunami Warning System:

How the Pacific warning system works (animation)

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/Dart/Flash/CODEframe4DART.html

 

When a tsunami strikes - warning system works this way

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/Mov/DART_04.swf