TSUNAMI 2004 ANIMATION

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NOAA ANIMATION SHOWS WORLDWIDE REACH OF INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI

The massive tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean literally rippled around the world. NOAA scientist Vasily Titov, using seismic data, rendered an animation showing how the tsunami waves propagated across the Earth. Some of the waves reached the United States and many other nations outside the Indian Ocean.

NOAA screen capture of Indian Ocean tsunami propagating across the world.

Click NOAA screen capture for larger view of tsunami worldwide propagation. Click here for high resolution version. Please credit "NOAA."

Titov used the numerical model called Method of Splitting Tsunami, or MOST. He used this model hours after the tsunami first struck showing the quake’s epicenter and how the tsunami moved across the Indian Ocean.

The animation covers a period of 44 hours and 27 minutes of tsunami propagation. The tsunami reached the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States about the same time—some 28 hours after the earthquake struck on Dec. 26, 2004, at 00.59 UTC or 7:59 p.m. EST. The MOST model also was used to interpret the data for the tsunami's wave height from four satellites.

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NOAA Tsunami Research

 http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2365.htm

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