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Spillcam was a live feed of the leak site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The live footage first became available to the general public on May 12 when BP was pressured by politicians to release the footage.
A tsunami has killed at least 280 people and injured hundreds on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra following an underwater landslide believed to have been caused by the erupting Anak ...
On 10 April 1815, an eruption of VEI 7 caused a localized tsunami. Tsunami of 4 metres (13 ft) in Sanggar, 1 to 2 m (3 ft 3 in to 6 ft 7 in) in Besuki, Java Island and 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in the Molucca Islands. 1819: Gujarat, India: 1819 Rann of Kutch earthquake: Earthquake: On 16 June 1819, a local tsunami inundated the Great Rann of Kutch: 1833
In 2022, the Thai government is led by Prime Minister Traipop, a young politician who is considerate of public interests over political. 18 years after the 2004 tsunami, Traipop's administration sets up a national disaster alarm centre; Dr. Siam is its director, while the staff consists entirely of young people.
Search and rescue efforts continued on December 28, after a deadly tsunami swept the Sunda Strait coastal provinces of Banten and Lampung the previous week.The tsunami, believed to have been ...
Amplitude, Wave Height, or Tsunami Height: Refers to the height of a tsunami relative to the normal sea level at the time of the tsunami, which may be tidal High Water, or Low Water. It is different from the crest-to-trough height which is commonly used to measure other type of wave height.
A tsunami warning was issued Thursday morning following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck in Humboldt County, 7 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, Calif., the National Weather Service said in ...
An example of this was the 17 July 1998, Papua New Guinean landslide tsunami where waves up to 15 m high impacted a 20 km section of the coast killing 2,200 people, yet at greater distances the tsunami was not a major hazard. This is due to the comparatively small source area of most landslide tsunami (relative to the area affected by large ...