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11 March 2011

Tsunami Wave Height Map from NOAA

My fellow AGU bloggers have some really good info on the science behind the quake here. In particular, Callan Bentley’s Mountain Beltway and Dave Petley’s Landslide Blog. My Seismograph Story While at university in the late 1970’s, I worked at a seismic observatory in Oklahoma for a summer. It was a very fascinating experience and has turned out to be very helpful in my job as a meteorologist working in …

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Super Quake Spawns Massive Tsunami in Japan

  Update: Amazing video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3fUqdGXLbM The strongest earthquake ever recorded in Japan struck at 0546 GMT Friday. It was 3:46 PM on a Friday afternoon and a massive tsunami struck minutes later. The damage you can see on TV (The BBC coverage is exc. as usual) but here is a little science behind why it happened.   Japan sits on top of three of the Earths Tectonic plates. Mount …

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