tsunami!!! images came from all over – orbview for the space based recent images – pacific...
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Tsunami!!!Images came from all over – OrbView for the space based recent images –
Pacific Tsunami Museum – some via BBC.
Sumatra (Aceh)Sri Lanka
• An Earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia rocked down a lot of houses – and sent off a tsunami to kill even more.
• The tsunami killed people as far away as Somalia and Kenya in East Africa
• The Sri Lankan coastline is fairly shallow – the red represents about 5 meter elevation. Sometimes 2km inland, or more!
How About Hawaii??
• What was Shinmachi?
• Where was Waiakea??
• What about Laupahoehoe?
• 1946 & 1960
Bad Idea – looking for fish!
1957
Downtown
1946
Coconut Island
1946
Coconut Island - receding
1946
Harbor
1946
Hilo Traintracks
1946
1946
Kress Building
1946
1946
1946
Midway Atoll 1952 – Kamchatka earthquake
Hilo 1960
1960 Chile Earthquake
Suisan – waiting for 1960
1960
Near Suisan
1960
1960
1960
Hilo - 1960
Phuket – Thailand - 2004
Samoa / American Samoa / Tonga
Earthquake2009
Leone
Leone
Pago Pago
Pago Pago
Pago Pago
Pago Pago
Fagatogo
Fagatogo