Tsunami - San Francisco
After seeing all the dramatic footage of devastation from the March 2011 tsunami in Japan, anyone living near an ocean coastline wonders, “What if that happened here?”
Fortunately, by means of computer simulation we don’t have to wait for the real thing to glimpse an answer.
For illustration, imagine a five meter high tsunami wave, 26 km across heading toward the San Francisco Bay Area from the west. How would the Pacific Coast fair? How much of the wave penetrates through the Glolden Gate?
I put togehter this short YouTube movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlIqfkkRZRQ to address these issues and more.
Computer simulations like these help scientists assess potential hazards from historical and future tsunami events to get a handle on the question --- “What if THAT happened here?”
Steven N. Ward, Santa Cruz
About OpenHazards Bloggers
Steven Ward is a Research Geophysicist at
the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UC Santa Cruz. He specializes in the quantification and simulation of
natural hazards. Read Steve's blog.
John Rundle is a Distinguished Professor of Physics
and Geology at UC Davis and
the Executive Director of the APEC Collaboration for Earthquake Simulations. He
chaired the Board of Advisors for the Southern California Earthquake Center from 1994 to 1996. Read John's blog.
Comments
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Tsunami is a really dangerous thing and it is bad to hear that it is all happening in the Japan. The reason is that Japan is consisting of the plate which is in movement as I read in an article at EssaysMama website. You also share this video to understand your meaning in a good way.