http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP) -- The tsunami that killed more than 200 people in the Samoan islands and Tonga earlier this year towered up to 46 feet (14 meters) high - more then twice as tall as most of the buildings it slammed into, scientists said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news179118002.html Space & Earth Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:10:02 EST news179118002 (PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes you really can believe your eyes. That's what NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) is telling researchers about a controversial phenomenon on the sun known as the "solar tsunami." http://www.physorg.com/news177872248.html Space & Earth Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:00:58 EST news177872248 (PhysOrg.com) -- Samoa's tsunami detection, monitoring and warning system works well and could not have prevented the more than 100 deaths caused by the devastating tsunami that hit the region on September 29, a major international study has found. http://www.physorg.com/news176629552.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:10:01 EST news176629552 (PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a group of scientists working in the Kuril Islands off the east coast of Russia has documented the scope of tsunami-caused erosion and found that a wave can carry away far more sand and dirt than it deposits. http://www.physorg.com/news175890890.html Space & Earth Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:36:00 EST news175890890 "There is a likely chance of tsunami waves reaching the shores of Israel," says Dr. Beverly Goodman of the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences at the University of Haifa following encompassing geoarchaeological research at the port of Caesarea. "Tsunami events in the Mediterranean do occur less frequently than in the Pacific Ocean, but our findings reveal a moderate rate of recurrence," she says. http://www.physorg.com/news175775946.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:41:06 EST news175775946 Some time soon, a powerful earthquake will trigger a massive tsunami that will flood the Pacific Northwest, destroying homes and threatening the lives of tens of thousands of people, says Yumei Wang, a geotechnical engineer at the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries in Portland. http://www.physorg.com/news175177008.html Space & Earth Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:30:01 EST news175177008 A colossal earthquake may hit Indonesia's Sumatra island within 30 years, triggering a tsunami and making last month's deadly temblor look tiny by comparison, a geologist has warned. http://www.physorg.com/news174804075.html Space & Earth Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:20:03 EST news174804075 A sudden cluster of massive earthquakes which has shaken Asia-Pacific communities and likely left thousands dead has also jolted some scientists, who are starting to question conventional thought. http://www.physorg.com/news174481366.html Space & Earth Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:30:03 EST news174481366 (PhysOrg.com) -- The recent earthquakes in the Pacific and Indonesia have one University of Queensland researcher questioning whether the two are related. http://www.physorg.com/news174214964.html Space & Earth Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:03:07 EST news174214964 (PhysOrg.com) -- Two color-coded perspective views of the Independent State of Samoa (left) and American Samoa (right), generated with digital elevation data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, illustrate the varying topography of the islands. http://www.physorg.com/news173705412.html Space & Earth Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:42:30 EST news173705412 The huge earthquake that hit Sumatra occurred at a deep, unexpected location, illustrating the dangerously complex geological mosaic in this area, a seismologist told AFP on Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news173621096.html Space & Earth Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:30:02 EST news173621096 (AP) -- Because of a lethal combination of geology and geography, the people of American Samoa didn't stand much of a chance. Almost every condition that triggers bad tsunamis was in place this time, generating waves that raced toward the island territory at speeds approaching 530 mph, or as fast as a 747 jumbo jet. And there was almost nothing to slow the water down. http://www.physorg.com/news173558388.html Space & Earth Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:00:02 EST news173558388 (PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it's unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in "Star Trek." Instead, the new method someday might shield submarines from sonar, planes from radar, buildings from earthquakes, and oil rigs and coastal structures from tsunamis. http://www.physorg.com/news169703752.html Physics Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:56:57 EST news169703752 The potential for a huge Pacific Ocean tsunami on the West Coast of America may be greater than previously thought, according to a new study of geological evidence along the Gulf of Alaska coast. http://www.physorg.com/news167303056.html Space & Earth Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:04:45 EST news167303056 For more than a decade, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have been unraveling the history of fault ruptures below the cobalt blue waters of Lake Tahoe one earthquake at a time. Two new studies by the Scripps research team offer a more comprehensive analysis of earthquake activity in the Lake Tahoe region, which suggest a magnitude-7 earthquake occurs every 2,000 to 3,000 years in the basin, and that the largest fault in the basin, West Tahoe, appears to have last ruptured between 4,100 and 4,500 years ago. http://www.physorg.com/news160229642.html Space & Earth Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:14:44 EST news160229642 A persistent school of thought in recent years has held that so-called "chevrons," large U- or V-shaped formations found in some of the world's coastal areas, are evidence of megatsunamis caused by asteroids or comets slamming into the ocean. http://www.physorg.com/news160212894.html Space & Earth Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:35:13 EST news160212894 Up to 30,000 residents and tourists could be under threat from a newly discovered tsunami risk in the Caribbean, according to experts in disaster risk management. http://www.physorg.com/news159690411.html Space & Earth Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:27:16 EST news159690411 A magnitude 8.0. earthquake destroyed 90 percent of the city of Pisco, Peru on August 16, 2007. The event killed 595 people, while another 318 were missing. Tsunami waves were observed locally, off the shore of Chile, and as far away as New Zealand. http://www.physorg.com/news158584209.html Space & Earth Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:10:57 EST news158584209 A new mathematical formula that could be used to give advance warning of where a tsunami is likely to hit and how destructive it will be has been worked out by scientists at Newcastle University. http://www.physorg.com/news157785128.html Other Sciences Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:13:06 EST news157785128 A major 7.9-magnitude earthquake has shaken the South Pacific nation of Tonga and sending people in low lying areas of Fiji fleeing for higher ground after a tsunami warning, according to officials. http://www.physorg.com/news156752492.html Space & Earth Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:22:24 EST news156752492 Why would women give more to the victims of Hurricane Katrina than to the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research sheds light onto the way gender and moral identity affect donations. http://www.physorg.com/news154630206.html Other Sciences Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:50:27 EST news154630206 A team of scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has reported a rapid recovery of coral reefs in areas of Indonesia, following the tsunami that devastated coastal regions throughout the Indian Ocean four years ago today. http://www.physorg.com/news149768973.html Space & Earth Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:29:33 EST news149768973 Claims that coastal tree barriers can halt the might of a tsunami are false and dangerous, a team of international marine scientists said today. http://www.physorg.com/news149485861.html Space & Earth Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:51:01 EST news149485861 (PhysOrg.com) -- A quarter-million people were killed when a tsunami inundated Indian Ocean coastlines the day after Christmas in 2004. Now scientists have found evidence that the event was not a first-time occurrence. http://www.physorg.com/news144506177.html Space & Earth Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:36:17 EST news144506177