 Goals | |
|
• Understand how oceanic topography affects tsunami wave propagation • Develop simple criteria for identifying topography that reflects and scatters • Interpret the tsunami wave-height patterns seen in model simulations • Determine how smoothing the topography affects the simulated tsunamis |
MOST Model Simulations Three Recent Pacific Tsunamis | ||
 |
 |
 |
June 10, 1996 Andreanof Is. Tsunami (MW = 7.7) Epicenter at 50.60N, 177.70W | ||
 |
 |
 |
December 5, 1997 Kamchatka Tsunami (MW=7.9) Epicenter at 54.66N, 161.78E | ||
 |
 |
 |
October 4, 1994 Shikotan (Kuril Is.) Tsunami (MW = 8.2) Epicenter at 43.67N, 147.36E | ||
 | ||