Sóng thần
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Sóng thần (tsunami) là một loạt các đợt sóng được hình thành khi một khối lượng nước, như một đại dương, bị chuyển dịch nhanh chóng trên một quy mô lớn. Các trận động đất, các dịch chuyển địa chất lớn bên trên hay bên dưới mặt nước, các cuộc núi lửa phun và những vụ va chạm thiên thạch đều có khả năng gây ra sóng thần. Những hậu quả của sóng thần có thể ở mức không nhận ra được tới mức gây thiệt hại to lớn.
Thuật ngữ tsunami (sóng thần) bắt nguồn từ tiếng Nhật có nghĩa "cảng" (津 tsu) và "sóng" (波 nami). Thuật ngữ này do các ngư dân đặt ra dù họ không thể nhận biết được các đợt sóng ở ngoài biển khơi. Một sóng thần là một hiện tượng bên dưới đáy biển sâu; ở ngoài khơi, sóng có biên độ (chiều cao sóng) khá nhỏ (thường dài hàng trăm kilômét), điều này giải thích tại sao ở ngoài biển chúng ta khó nhận ra nó, và khi ở ngoài khơi nó chỉ đơn giản là một gồ sóng chạy ngang biển.
Sóng thần trước kia từng được coi là sóng thuỷ triều bởi vì nó tiến vào bờ, và nó có tính chất của một đợt thuỷ triều mạnh đang tiến vào hơn là một loại sóng có mũ sóng hình thành do hoạt động của gió trên đại dương (loại sóng chúng ta thường gặp). Tuy nhiên, vì trên thực tế nó không liên quan tới thuỷ triều, thuật ngữ này đã bị chứng minh là sai (dù không phải trận sóng thần nào cũng xảy ra ở cảng) và các nhà hải dương học đã không sử dụng nó nữa.
[sửa] Các nguyên nhân
Các trận sóng thần có thể hình thành khi đáy biển, đột ngột bị biến dạng theo chiều dọc, chiếm chỗ của lượng nước nằm trên nó. Những sự di chuyển lớn theo chiều dọc như vậy của vỏ Trái Đất có thể xảy ra tại các rìa mảng lục địa. Những trận động đất do nguyên nhân va chạm mảng đặc biệt hay tạo ra các cơn sóng thần. Khi một mảng đại dương va chạm với một mảng lục địa, đôi khi nó làm rìa mảng lục địa chuyển động xuống dưới. Cuối cùng, áp suất quá lớn tác dụng lên rìa mảng khiến nó nhẩy giật lùi lại (snaps back) tạo ra các đợt sóng chấn động vào vỏ Trái Đất, khiến xảy ra cơn địa chấn dưới lòng biển, được gọi là động đất tại đáy biển.
Những vụ lở đất dưới đáy biển (thỉnh thoảng xảy ra vì nguyên nhân động đất) cũng như những vụ sụp đổ của núi lửa cũng có thể làm chấn động cột nước khiến trầm tích và đá trượt xuống theo sườn núi rơi xuống đáy biển. Tương tự như vậy, một vụ phun trào núi lửa mạnh dưới biển cũng có thể tung lên một cột nước để hình thành sóng thần.
Các con sóng được hình thành khi khối lượng nước bị dịch chuyển vị trí chuyển động dưới ảnh hưởng của trọng lực để lấy lại thăng bằng và tỏa ra trên khắp đại dương như các gợn sóng trên mặt ao.
Trong thập kỷ 1950 người ta đã khám phá ra rằng những cơn sóng thần lớn có thể xuất hiện từ các vụ lở đất, hoạt động phun trào núi lửa và các vụ va chạm thiên thạch. Những hiện tượng đó khiến một lượng nước lớn nhanh chóng bị chuyển chỗ, khi năng lượng từ một thiên thạch hay một vụ nổ chuyển vào trong nước nơi xảy ra va chạm. Các cơn sóng thần với xuất hiện từ những nguyên nhân đó, khác với những trận sóng thần do động đất gây ra, thường nhanh chóng tan rã và hiếm khi lan tới những bờ biển quá xa vì diện tích xảy ra sự kiện nhỏ. Các hiện tướng đó có thể gây ra các cơn sóng địa chấn lớn chỉ trong một khu vực, như vụ lở đất ở Vịnh Lituya tạo ra một sóng nước ước tính tới 50-150 m và tràn tới độ cao 524 m trên các ngọn núi ở đó. Tuy nhiên, một vụ lở đất cực lớn có thể gây ra một trận sóng thần cực lớn gây ảnh hưởng trên toàn bộ đại dương.
[sửa] Các đặc điểm
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Often referred to as "tidal waves", a tsunami does not look like the popular impression of "a normal wave only much bigger". Instead it looks rather like an endlessly onrushing tide which forces its way around and through any obstacle. Most of the damage is caused by the huge mass of water behind the initial wave front, as the height of the sea keeps rising fast and floods powerfully into the coastal area. The sheer weight of water is enough to pulverise objects in its path, often reducing buildings to their foundations and scouring exposed ground to the bedrock. Large objects such as ships and boulders can be carried several miles inland before the tsunami subsides.
Tsunamis act very differently from typical surf swells: they contain immense energy, propagate at high speeds and can travel great trans-oceanic distances with little overall energy loss. A tsunami can cause damage thousands of kilometres from its origin, so there may be several hours between its creation and its impact on a coast, arriving long after the seismic wave generated by the originating event arrives. Although the total or overall loss of energy is small, the total energy is spread over a larger and larger circumference as the wave travels. The energy per linear metre in the wave is proportional to the inverse of the distance from the source.[cần chú thích] (In other words, it decreases linearly with distance.) This is the two-dimensional equivalent of the inverse square law, which is followed by waves which propagate in three dimensions (in a sphere instead of a circle).
A single tsunami event may involve a series of waves of varying heights; the set of waves is called a train. In open water, tsunamis have extremely long periods (the time for the next wave top to pass a point after the previous one), from minutes to hours, and long wavelengths of up to several hundred kilometres. This is very different from typical wind-generated swells on the ocean, which might have a period of about 10 seconds and a wavelength of 150 metres.
The actual height of a tsunami wave in open water is often less than one metre. This is often practically unnoticeable to people on ships. Because it has such a large wavelength, the energy of a tsunami mobilizes the entire water column, down to the sea bed. Ocean waves in deep water typically cause water motion to a depth approximately equal to half their wavelength. This means, ocean surface wave motion will only reach down to a depth of a few 100 m or less. Tsunamis, by contrast behave as shallow water waves in the deep ocean (provided their length is at least 20 times the local depth), for which little attenuation of water motion occurs with depth.
The wave travels across open ocean at an average speed of 500 mph([1]). As the wave approaches land, the sea shallows and the wave no longer travels as quickly, so it begins to 'pile-up'; the wave-front becomes steeper and taller, and there is less distance between crests. While a person at the surface of deep water would probably not even notice the tsunami, the wave can increase to a height of six stories or more as it approaches the coastline and compresses. The steepening process is analogous to the cracking of a tapered whip. As a wave goes down the whip from handle to tip, the same energy is deposited in less and less material, which then moves more violently as it receives this energy.
A wave becomes a 'shallow-water wave' when the ratio between the water depth and its wavelength gets very small, and since a tsunami has an extremely large wavelength (hundreds of kilometres), tsunamis act as a shallow-water wave even in deep oceanic water. Shallow-water waves move at a speed that is equal to the square root of the product of the acceleration of gravity (9.8 m/s2) and the water depth. For example, in the Pacific Ocean, where the typical water depth is about 4000 m, a tsunami travels at about 200 m/s (720 km/h or 450 mi/h) with little energy loss, even over long distances. At a water depth of 40 m, the speed would be 20 m/s (about 72 km/h or 45 mi/h), which is much slower than the speed in the open ocean but the wave would still be difficult to outrun.
Tsunamis propagate outward from their source, so coasts in the "shadow" of affected land masses are usually fairly safe. However, tsunami waves can diffract around land masses (as shown in this Indian Ocean tsunami animation as the waves reach southern Sri Lanka and India). It's also not necessary that they are symmetrical; tsunami waves may be much stronger in one direction than another, depending on the nature of the source and the surrounding geography.
Local geographic peculiarities can lead to seiche or standing waves forming, which can amplify the onshore damage. For instance, the tsunami that hit Hawaii on April 1, 1946 had a fifteen-minute interval between wave fronts. The natural resonant period of Hilo Bay is about thirty minutes. That meant that every second wave was in phase with the motion of Hilo Bay, creating a seiche in the bay. As a result, Hilo suffered worse damage than any other place in Hawaii, with the tsunami/seiche reaching a height of 14 m and killing 159 inhabitants.
[sửa] Sóng thần
Ocean waves are normally divided into 3 groups, characterized by depth:
- Deep water
- Intermediate water
- Shallow water
Even though a tsunami is generated in deep water (around 4000 m below mean sea level), tsunami waves are considered shallow-water waves. As the tsunami wave approaches the shallow waters of shore, its time period remains the same, but its wavelength decreases rapidly, thus causing the water to pile up to form tremendous crests, in an effect known as "shoaling".
[sửa] Dấu hiệu của một đợt sóng thần sắp tới
The following have at various times been associated with a tsunami [2]:
- An earthquake may be felt.
- Large quantities of gas may bubble to the water surface and make the sea look as if it is boiling.
- The water in the waves may be unusually hot.
- The water may smell of rotten eggs (hydrogen sulfide) or of petrol or oil.
- The water may sting the skin.
- A thunderous boom may be heard followed by
- a roaring noise as of a jet plane
- or a noise akin to the periodic whop-whop of a helicopter,
- or a whistling sound.
- The sea may recede to a considerable distance.
- A flash of red light might be seen near the horizon.
[sửa] Cảnh báo và ngăn chặn
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Dấu hiệu "Vùng nguy hiểm sóng thần" tại Đại học California, Santa Barbara
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Bức tường sóng thần tại Tsu-shi, Nhật Bản
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Tsunamis cannot be prevented or precisely predicted, but there are some warning signs of an impending tsunami, and there are many systems being developed and in use to reduce the damage from tsunamis.
In instances where the leading edge of the tsunami wave is its trough, the sea will recede from the coast half of the wave's period before the wave's arrival. If the slope is shallow, this recession can exceed many hundreds of metres. People unaware of the danger may remain at the shore due to curiosity, or for collecting fish from the exposed sea bed.
In instances where the leading edge of the tsunami is its first peak, succeeding waves can lead to further flooding. Again, being educated about a tsunami is important, to realize that when the water level drops the first time, the danger is not yet over. In a low-lying coastal area, a strong earthquake is a major warning sign that a tsunami may be produced.
Regions with a high risk of tsunamis may use tsunami warning systems to detect tsunamis and warn the general population before the wave reaches land. In some communities on the west coast of the United States, which is prone to Pacific Ocean tsunamis, warning signs advise people where to run in the event of an incoming tsunami. Computer models can roughly predict tsunami arrival and impact based on information about the event that triggered it and the shape of the seafloor (bathymetry) and coastal land (topography).[3]
One of the early warnings comes from nearby animals. Many animals sense danger and flee to higher ground before the water arrives. The Lisbon quake is the first documented case of such a phenomenon in Europe. The phenomenon was also noted in Sri Lanka in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake ([4]). Some scientists speculate that animals may have an ability to sense subsonic Rayleigh waves from an earthquake minutes or hours before a tsunami strikes shore (Kenneally, [5]).
While it is not possible to prevent a tsunami, in some particularly tsunami-prone countries some measures have been taken to reduce the damage caused on shore. Japan has implemented an extensive programme of building tsunami walls of up to 4.5 m (13.5 ft) high in front of populated coastal areas. Other localities have built floodgates and channels to redirect the water from incoming tsunamis. However, their effectiveness has been questioned, as tsunamis are often higher than the barriers. For instance, the tsunami which hit the island of Hokkaido on July 12, 1993 created waves as much as 30 m (100 ft) tall - as high as a 10-story building. The port town of Aonae was completely surrounded by a tsunami wall, but the waves washed right over the wall and destroyed all the wood-framed structures in the area. The wall may have succeeded in slowing down and moderating the height of the tsunami but it did not prevent major destruction and loss of life.
The effects of a tsunami can be mitigated by natural factors such as tree cover on the shoreline. Some locations in the path of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami escaped almost unscathed as a result of the tsunami's energy being sapped by a belt of trees such as coconut palms and mangroves. In one striking example, the village of Naluvedapathy in India's Tamil Nadu region suffered minimal damage and few deaths as the wave broke up on a forest of 80,244 trees planted along the shoreline in 2002 in a bid to enter the Guinness Book of Records. [6] Environmentalists have suggested tree planting along stretches of sea coast which are prone to tsunami risks. While it would take some years for the trees to grow to a useful size, such plantations could offer a much cheaper and longer-lasting means of tsunami mitigation than the costly and environmentally destructive method of erecting artificial barriers.
[sửa] Các trận sóng thần lịch sử
See also List of historic tsunamis by death toll.
Tsunamis occur most frequently in the Pacific Ocean, but are a global phenomenon; they are possible wherever large bodies of water are found, including inland lakes, where they can be caused by landslides. Very small tsunamis, non-destructive and undetectable without specialized equipment, occur frequently as a result of minor earthquakes and other events.
[sửa] 1700 - Vancouver Island, Canada
January 26 - The Cascadia Earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes on record, ruptures the Cascadia Subduction Zone offshore from Vancouver Island to northern California, creating a tsunami logged in Japan and oral traditions of the Native Americans.
[sửa] 1755 - Lisbon, Portugal
Tens of thousands of Portuguese who survived the great 1755 Lisbon earthquake were killed by a tsunami which followed a half hour later. Many townspeople fled to the waterfront, believing the area safe from fires and from falling debris from aftershocks. Before the great wall of water hit the harbour, waters retreated, revealing lost cargo and forgotten shipwrecks.
The earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent fires killed more than a third of Lisbon's pre-quake population of 275,000. Historical records of explorations by Vasco da Gama and other early navigators were lost, and countless buildings were destroyed (including most examples of Portugal's Manueline architecture). Europeans of the 18th century struggled to understand the disaster within religious and rational belief systems. Philosophers of the Enlightenment, notably Voltaire, wrote about the event. The philosophical concept of the sublime, as described by philosopher Immanuel Kant in the Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime, took inspiration in part from attempts to comprehend the enormity of the Lisbon quake and tsunami.
[sửa] 1883 - Krakatoa explosive eruption
The island volcano of Krakatoa in Indonesia exploded with devastating fury in 1883, blowing its underground magma chamber partly empty so that much overlying land and seabed collapsed into it. A series of large tsunami waves was generated from the collapse, some reaching a height of over 40 metres above sea level. Tsunami waves were observed throughout the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the American West Coast, South America, and even as far away as the English Channel. On the facing coasts of Java and Sumatra the sea flood went many miles inland and caused such vast loss of life that one area was never resettled but went back to the jungle and is now the Ujung Kulon nature reserve.
[sửa] Halifax Explosion và sóng thần
The Halifax Explosion occurred on Thursday, December 6, 1917 at 9:04:35 a.m. local time in Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada, when the French munitions ship Mont-Blanc, bound for World War I France, collided with the Norwegian ship Imo chartered to carry Belgian relief supplies. In the aftermath of the collision, Mont-Blanc caught fire and exploded. The explosion caused a tsunami, and a pressure-wave of air.
[sửa] 1929 - Newfoundland tsunami
On November 18, 1929, an earthquake of magnitude 7.2 occurred beneath the Laurentian Slope on the Grand Banks. The quake was felt throughout the Atlantic Provinces of Canada and as far west as Ottawa, Ontario and as far south as Claymont, Delaware. The resulting tsunami measured over 7 metres in height and took about 2½ hours to reach the Burin Peninsula on the south coast of Newfoundland, where 28 people lost their lives in various communities.
[sửa] 1946 - Pacific tsunami
The April 1 Aleutian Island earthquake tsunami that killed 165 people on Hawaii and Alaska resulted in the creation of a tsunami warning system (specifically The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center), established in 1949 for Pacific Ocean area countries. The tsunami is locally known in Hawaii as the April Fools Day Tsunami in Hawaii due to people thinking the warnings were an April Fools prank.
[sửa] 1960 - Chilean tsunami
The magnitude-9.5 Great Chilean Earthquake was the strongest earthquake ever recorded. Its epicentre off the coast of South Central Chile, generated one of the most destructive tsunamis of the 20th century.
It spread across the entire Pacific Ocean, with waves measuring up to 25 metres high. The first tsunami arrived at Hilo, Hawaii approximately 14.8 hrs after it originated off the coast of South Central Chile.
The highest wave at Hilo Bay was measured at around 10.7 m (35 ft.). 61 lives were lost allegedly due to people's failure to heed warning sirens. When the tsunami hit Onagawa, Japan, almost 22 hours after the quake, the wave height was 3 m above high tide. The number of people killed by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami is estimated to be between 490 and 2,290.
[sửa] 1963 - Vajont Dam disaster
The reservoir behind the Vajont Dam in northern Italy was struck by an enormous landslide. A tsunami was triggered which swept over the top of the dam (without bursting it) and into the valley below. Nearly 2,000 people were killed.
[sửa] 1964 - Good Friday tsunami
After the magnitude 9.2 Good Friday Earthquake, tsunamis struck Alaska, British Columbia, California and coastal Pacific Northwest towns, killing 121 people. The tsunamis were up to 6 m tall, and killed 11 people as far away as Crescent City, California.
[sửa] 1976 - Moro Gulf tsunami
On August 16, 1976 at 12:11 A.M., a devastating earthquake of 7.9 hit the island of Mindanao, Philippines. It created a tsunami that devastated more than 700 km of coastline bordering Moro Gulf in the North Celebes Sea. An estimated number of victims for this tragedy left 5,000 dead, 2,200 missing or presumed dead, more than 9,500 injured and a total of 93,500 people were left homeless. It devastated the cities and provinces of Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga City, Basilan, Sulu, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao, Cotabato City, Lanao del Sur and Lanao del Norte.
[sửa] 1979 - Tumaco tsunami
A magnitude-7.9 earthquake occurred on December 12, 1979 at 7:59:4.3 (UTC) along the Pacific coast of Colombia and Ecuador. The earthquake and the resulting tsunami caused the destruction of at least six fishing villages and the death of hundreds of people in the Colombian province of Nariño. The earthquake was felt in Bogotá, Cali, Popayán, Buenaventura and several other cities and towns in Colombia and in Guayaquil, Esmeraldas, Quito and other parts of Ecuador. When the Tumaco Tsunami hit the coast, it caused huge destruction in the city of Tumaco, as well as in the small towns of El Charco, San Juan, Mosquera and Salahonda on the Pacific Coast of Colombia. The total number of victims of this tragedy was 259 dead, 798 wounded and 95 missing or presumed dead.
[sửa] 1993 - Okushiri tsunami
A devastating tsunami occurred off the coast of Hokkaido in Japan as a result of an earthquake on July 12, 1993. As a result, 202 people on the small island of Okushiri were killed, and hundreds more were missing or injured. In addition, millions of pet birds, cats and dogs lost their lives.
[sửa] 2004 - Indian Ocean tsunami

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which had a magnitude of 9.15, triggered a series of lethal tsunamis on December 26, 2004 that killed approximately 230,000 people (including 168,000 in Indonesia alone), making it the deadliest tsunami in recorded history.[7] The tsunami killed people over an area ranging from the immediate vicinity of the quake in Indonesia, Thailand and the north-western coast of Malaysia to thousands of kilometres away in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and even as far as Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania in eastern Africa. The disaster prompted a huge worldwide effort to help victims of the tragedy, with billions of dollars being raised for disaster relief.
Unlike in the Pacific Ocean, there was no organized alert service covering the Indian Ocean. This was in part due to the absence of major tsunami events between 1883 (the Krakatoa eruption, which killed 36,000 people) and 2004. In light of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, UNESCO and other world bodies have called for a global tsunami monitoring system.
[sửa] 2006 - South of Java Island tsunami
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake shocked Indian Ocean on 17th July 2006 at 200 km south of Pangandaran, a beautiful beach famous for its perfect wave for surfer. This earthquake trigerred tsunami which has various high starting from 2 meters at Cilacap to 6 meters at Cimerak beach swept and flatenned the buildings until 400 meters away in certain location from coast line. Number of victims reported more than 600 people killed with around 150 people are still missing.
[sửa] Các trận sóng thần khác ở Nam Á
Tsunamis in South Asia (Source: Amateur Seismic Centre, India)[8] |
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Date | Location | |||||
1524 | Near Dabhol, Maharashtra | |||||
02 April 1762 | Arakan Coast, Myanmar | |||||
16 June 1819 | Rann of Kachchh, Gujarat, India | |||||
31 October 1847 | Great Nicobar Island, India | |||||
31 December 1881 | Car Nicobar Island, India | |||||
26 August 1883 | Krakatoa volcanic eruption | |||||
28 November 1945 | Mekran coast, Balochistan | |||||
26 December 2004 | Banda Aceh, Indonesia; Tamil Nadu (India), Kerala (India), Andhra Pradesh (India), Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India); Sri Lanka; Thailand; Malaysia; Maldives; Somalia; Kenya; Tanzania |
[sửa] Các trận sóng thần lịch sử khác7
Other tsunamis that have occurred include the following:
- circa 500 BC: Poompuhar, Tamil Nadu, India, Maldives
- 1541: one struck the earliest European settlement in Brazil, São Vicente. There is no record of deaths or injuries, but the town was almost completely destroyed.
- January 20, 1606 /1607: along the coast of the Bristol Channel (main article) thousands of people were drowned, houses and villages swept away, farmland was inundated and flocks were destroyed by a flood that might have been a tsunami. The cause of the flood remains disputed, it is quite possible that it was caused by a combination of meteorological extremes and tidal peaks.(discussion).
- January 26, 1700: the Cascadia Earthquake (estimated 9.0 magnitude) caused massive tsunamis across the Pacific Northwest.
- One of the worst tsunami disasters engulfed whole villages along Sanriku, Japan, in 1896. A wave more than seven stories tall (about 20 m) drowned some 26,000 people.
- 1946: An earthquake in the Aleutian Islands sent a tsunami to Hawaii, killing 159 people (five died in Alaska).
- July 9, 1958: A huge landslip caused a tsunami in the fjord shaped Lituya Bay, Alaska, USA. It travelled at over 150 km/h.
- May 26, 1983: 104 people in western Japan were killed by a tsunami spawned from a nearby earthquake.
- 17 July, 1998: A Papua New Guinea tsunami killed approximately 2200 people [9]. A 7.1 magnitude earthquake 24 km offshore was followed within 11 minutes by a tsunami about 12 m tall. While the magnitude of the quake was not large enough to create these waves directly, it is believed the earthquake generated an undersea landslide, which in turn caused the tsunami. The villages of Arop and Warapu were destroyed.
- 17 July, 2006: A six-foot high tsunami hit the south coast of the island of Java, Indonesia at approximately 11:20 UTC. It killed at least 500 people and damaged houses, boats and hotels on or near Pangandaran beach. The tsunami was the direct result of a 7.7 magnitude earthquake offshore in the Indian Ocean. See July 2006 Java earthquake.
[sửa] North American and Caribbean tsunamis
- 1690 - Nevis
- 14 November 1840 - Great Swell on the Delaware River
- 18 November 1867 - Virgin Islands
- 17 November 1872 - Maine
- 11 October 1918 - Puerto Rico
- 18 November 1929 - Newfoundland
- 9 January 1926 - Maine
- 4 August 1946 - Dominican Republic
- 18 August 1946 - Dominican Republic
Possible tsunamis
- 35 million years ago - Chesapeake Bay impact crater, Chesapeake Bay
- 9 June 1913 - Longport, NJ
- 6 August 1923 - Rockaway Park, Queens, NY .
- 8 August 1924 - Coney Island, NY .
- 19 August 1931 - Atlantic City, NJ
- 21 September 1938 - Hurricane, NJ coast.
- 19 May 1964 - Northeast USA
- 4 July 1992 - Daytona Beach, FL
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Office
[sửa] European tsunamis
- 16 October 1979 - 23 people died when the coast of Nice, France, was hit by a tsunami. This may have had a manmade cause due to construction at the new Nice airport creating an undersea landslide. [10]
[sửa] Xem thêm
- Núi lửa
- Động đất
- Thảm họa Sóng thần Ấn Độ Dương
- Danh sách những cơn sóng thần trong lịch sử và số lượng người chết
- Higher Ground Project
- List of earthquakes
- Meteotsunami
- Megatsunami
- Freak wave
- Sneaker wave
- Tidal bore
- Tsunami Society
- List of natural disasters by death toll#Tsunami
- Earthquake
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- Lambourne, Helen (March 27, 2005). "Tsunami: Anatomy of a disaster". BBC News. link
- abelard.org. tsunamis: tsunamis travel fast but not at infinite speed. Website, retrieved March 29, 2005. link
- What about the famous image of a great canyon of water? Could this have any basis in reality?
[sửa] Note
[sửa] Liên kết ngoài
- Bài học địa lý về sóng thần, báo Tuổi trẻ Chủ nhật
[sửa] Articles and websites
- Tsunami Information — Information on tsunamis in Portuguese.
- Tsunami Information from the Coastal Ocean Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Tsunami Forums
- NOVA: Wave That Shook The World — Site and special report shot within days of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
- Biggest Tsunami Countdown — Description of the five largest historical tsunamis.
- NOAA Tsunami — General description of tsunamis and the United States agency NOAA's role in Tsunami hazard assessment, preparedness, education, forecasts & warnings, response and research.
- Can HF Radar detect Tsunamis? — University of Hamburg HF-Radar.
- Development Gateway Tsunami Special
- The Higher Ground Project — Stories of children who survived the tsunami.
- The International Centre for Geohazards (ICG)
- ITIC tsunami FAQ
- NOAA PMEL Tsunami Research Program (United States)
- USGS: Surviving a tsunami (United States)
- ITSU — Coordination Group for the Pacific Tsunami Warning System.
- Pacific Tsunami Museum
- Tsunamis and Earthquakes
- Tsunami Centers — United States National Weather Service.
- Science of Tsunami Hazards journal
- The International Centre for Geohazards (ICG)
- The Indian Ocean tsunami and what it tells us about tsunamis in general.
- Tsunami: Magnitude of Terror
- General Tsunami Resources
- Natural Disasters - Tsunami — Great research site for kids.
- Envirtech Tsunami Warning System — Based on seabed seismics and sea level gauges.
- Indian Ocean Disaster Relief
- Benfield Hazard Research - Mega Tsunamis - Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Canary Island of La Palma Risk
- What Causes a Tsunami?
- Scientific American Magazine (January 2006 Issue) Tsunami: Wave of Change What we can learn from the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004.
[sửa] Images and video
See also: Images and video, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
- Large Collection of Amateur Tsunami Videos with Thunbnail Images and Detailed Descriptions
- [11] 5 Amateur Camcorder Video Streams of the December 26, 2004 tsunami that hit Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia (search on tsunamis).
- 2004 Asian Tsunami Satellite Images (Before and After)
- Satellite Images of Tsunami Affected Areas High resolution satellite images showing the effects of the 2004 tsunami on the affected areas in Indonesia, Thailand and Nicobar island of India.
- Computer-generated animation of a tsunami
- Animation of 1960 tsunami originating outside coast of Chile
- The Survivors - A moving travelogue full of stunning images along the tsunami ravaged South-Western Coast of India
Tsunamis are Dangerous- A site for about tsunamis for everyone
- Origin of a Tsunami - animation showing how the shifting of continental plates in the Indian Ocean created the catastrophe of December 26th 2004.
- CBC Digital Archives – Canada's Earthquakes and Tsunamis
[sửa] Fiction
- Michael Crichton's State of Fear (2004) explored unintended consequences of human intervention with natural forces. [12]