Science Mission Directorate

Tracy Arm’s Post-Tsunami Landscape

Carved over millennia by the pressure and motion of glacial ice, the valley walls cradling the Tracy Arm fjord in southeast ...
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NASA satellite captures a giant tsunami from space, rewriting science

From hundreds of miles above Earth, a NASA satellite has just watched a giant tsunami unfold in unprecedented detail, turning a once theoretical hazard into something scientists can now see and ...
AOL

These California coastal cities face heightened flood danger from tsunami, data show

A tsunami surge of water swept through a boat basin in Crescent City in March 2011. (Bryant Anderson / Associated Press) The risk of damaging flooding from a major tsunami may be greater than many ...
Los Angeles Times

Why one of the biggest earthquakes ever recorded caused so little damage

SAN FRANCISCO — It was one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, a magnitude 8.8 monster off the eastern coast of Russia. Despite its remote location, the size of the quake immediately brought ...
KSBW The Central Coast

What's the difference between a tsunami warning and an advisory?

FIRST PLACES WE LOOK TO SEE IF THERE’S ANY DAMAGE. LET’S GO AHEAD AND CHECK IN NOW WITH HEATHER WALDMAN, WHO’S BEEN TRACKING A LOT OF THIS FOR US. YEAH. AND ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND ...