Tsunami Buoy
Tsunamis
, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean set off a tsunami that caused massive destruction and loss of life.
Because Scripps Institution of Oceanography has studied ocean phenomena for more than a century, many people have
contacted us to gain scientific insight into this devastating event.
We extend our sympathies to all those who have suffered and hope that the ocean and earth science we provide can
play a part in a greater understanding of our planet.
Many thanks to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for allowing us to link to this animation
of the propagation of the tsunami waves throughout the world's oceans.
To view the animation please select from the following available formats:
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The Scripps Communications Office fielded dozens of media calls following the tsunami. Here is a selection
of the news clips that featured Scripps scientists.
January 26, 2005
Dr. John Orcutt, Deputy Director for Research
at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at
San Diego, center; testifies on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2005,
before the House Science Committee hearing on U.S. tsunami preparedness.
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December 27
Tsunami possible but unlikely along San Diego County coast
The largest sudden rise in sea level ever recorded in the San Diego area was 3.5 feet at Scripps Institution of
Oceanography pier in 1960, caused by a magnitude 9.5 earthquake in Chile, the strongest ever recorded.
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December 28
Geologists: Tsunamis little threat here: Region's sea-floor contours would sap wave of its strength
"What we saw over the weekend was a giant earthquake - a really, really big earthquake," said Jean-Bernard Minster,
a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.
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December 30
Tsunami Devastation Reveals Shortcomings of Monitoring System (audio)
Features Scripps scientist Pete Davis.
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December 31
CATASTROPHE IN SOUTHERN ASIA: Waterborne Debris Could Devastate Region's Coral
Coral reefs are already drastically affected by overfishing, pollution and disease, then a natural disaster is just another
add-on to the litany of environmental insults, said Jeremy Jackson, a professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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January 41
What Lies Beneath
Among the most challenging aspects of the ORION program is managing the
streams of real-time data that it will generate from thousands of
instruments, says John Orcutt, deputy director of Scripps Institution
of Oceanography and a leading researcher of the middleware that will
manage the ORION system.
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January 2
A Virginia tsunami? It already happened: Prehistoric mile-high wave reached mountains, shaped geology of coast, experts say
A study published in 2000 by Neal Driscoll, now at the Scripps
Institute of Oceanography, and colleagues suggested that cracks in the
sea floor about 60 miles east of Virginia Beach could start underwater
landslides leading to tsunamis of 20 feet high along the Virginia-North
Carolina coastline and hurricanelike flooding around the Chesapeake Bay.
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January 6
In Sumatra: Notes From a Geologist in the Field
We learned that two teams of surveyors from Bakosurtanal, the national
surveying agency, were flying today to Nias island, east of Sumatra, to
begin their resurvey of the campaign GPS monuments of Yehuda Bock and
his colleagues, scientists with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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(reprinted in The Union [Western Nevada County, CA])
January 6
Tsunami in Tahoe?:
Although it's possible, the probability of a Tahoe tsunami is low
McKinney Bay was formed when a massive landslide slipped into Lake
Tahoe, Graham Kent, a scientist at the Scripps Institute of
Oceanography told a Bonanza reporter two years ago.
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January 11
NOAA Aims for Predicting Tsunamis (audio)
[NPR anchor Neal] CONAN: This technology was also used to actually make maps of the ocean floor using those measurements.
[NOAA geophysicist Walter] SMITH : That's correct. That's work that I've done with colleague David Sandwell at the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography.
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