A powerful earthquake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula sent massive waves racing across the Pacific Ocean in late July. What ...
Scientists were able to use satellite data to gather critical information about a tsunami generated by a magnitude 8.8 ...
The July 29 M8.8 Kamchatka tsunami arguably caused more damage and certainly accrued more media coverage than the shaking losses. Two months out, we have a better picture of what happened, how the ...
When a huge earthquake struck near Kamchatka, the SWOT satellite captured an unprecedented, high-resolution view of the resulting tsunami as it crossed the Pacific. The data revealed the waves were ...
may lead to improvements in the models that forecast the hazardous effects of tsunamis. NOAA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The height goes down over time as the wave spreads over ...