Animations

 

University of Washington Tsunami Information Resource

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/movies/globe.mov

Animation (2.3Mb QuickTime movie) showing waves generated by Chilean earthquake in 1960 spreading across the Pacific to Japan. (Represents 22 hours in real time.)

 

PBS “Savage Earth – waves of destruction”

http://www.thirteen.org/savageearth/animations/tsunami/index.html

3 Flash slides with description.

 

US Geological Survey http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/stoch_low.html

2.2Mb QuickTime movie of theoretical tsunami off US Pacific coast.

 

University of Southern California, Tsunami Research Group

http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/video/calvid/

Small “ripple tank” simulations of effects of seismic activity off California coast. Third animation (“Hypothetical landslide”) is probably best.