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SWOT Spots Tsunami Wave After Kamchatka Quake
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Data provided by the water satellite are helping to improve tsunami forecast models.

Aug 13, 2025
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Sizing Up a Greenland Tsunami
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Satellite data show the shape of a wave as water sloshed around Dickson Fjord after a rockslide triggered a tsunami…

Nov 11, 2024
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Aftermath of a Landslide-Triggered Tsunami
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The 56-foot wave in Pedersen Lagoon, on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, damaged trees and left a mark on the landscape.

Aug 28, 2024
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Ten Years After the Tsunami
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One of the hardest hit coastal cities in Japan is still working to recover.

Mar 11, 2021
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The Specter of a Mega-Tsunami in Alaska
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Landsat images helped convince researchers that a slumping mountainside overlooking Barry Arm fjord could pose a tsunami hazard.

Oct 5, 2020
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Devastation in Palu After Earthquake, Tsunami
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Sobering satellite views reveal massive damage on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

Oct 2, 2018
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Tracking Debris from the Tohoku Tsunami
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Computer models describe the projected path of objects washed out into the Pacific Ocean by the March 2011 tsunami in…

Apr 3, 2012
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The Seafloor Focuses and Merges Tsunami Waves
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Even at great distances from their source, tsunami waves can grow by being focused and steered by underwater ridges.

Mar 11, 2012
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Effects of the Tohoku Tsunami on the Kitakami River
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One year after the tsunami, the landscape near the mouth of the Kitakami river remains irrevocably altered.

Mar 10, 2012
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