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Tsunami: Educational Web Sites

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Bridge – Tsunami
Background information, standards-based data exercise for students, FAQs, waves, earthquakes, animation, images, historical accounts, physics of tsunamis, plate tectonic map, Tsunami Warning System and links to several other sites.
www.vims.edu/bridge/

The National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program – Links for kids
Background information, games, NOAA education links, and PBS video link.
http://nthmp-history.pmel.noaa.gov/index.html

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Tsunami Research Program
NOAA site for Deep Ocean Assessment of Tsunamis and National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program. Includes links to mooring system details and animation, real time data, tsunami modeling and forecasting, tsunami events and data and inundation mapping.
www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/

National Geosphysical Data Center
Maps of maximum global wave amplitude, arrival time of waves to different locations, tsunami global wave animation, tsunami data base, article on measuring wave height from space and other related links.
www.ngdc.noaa.gov/spotlight/tsunami/

Education Resources:

Interactive map: http://map.ngdc.noaa.gov/website/seg/hazards/viewer.htm Natural hazards data, resources for students and teachers, tsunami data base and slide show. www.ngdc.noaa.gov/education/education.html

US Geological Survey
Earthquake for Kids
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/4kids/

National University of Singapore - Before and after IKONOS and SPOT5 satellite images
www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/tsunami/

• Thailand
• Aceh, Sumatra and Indonesia
• Katchall Island, India

Supercourse Tsunami
Slide presentation: Formation of a tsunami.
www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec18071/index.htm

Global Security - Indian Ocean Tsunami Animations
Links to historical aerial and satellite imagery, animations and references.
www.globalsecurity.org/eye/andaman-ani.htm

PBS Savage Earth – Waves of Destruction: Tsunamis
Background and animation on tsunamis.
www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/tsunami/index.html

The Tsunami Page: Dr. George Pararas–Carayannis
FAQs about tsunamis and the international tsunami warning system, effects of tsunamis and recent major earthquake and tsunami events.
www.drgeorgepc.com/

Alaska Sea Grant
Tsunami Video to order “Ocean Fury: Tsunamis in Alaska”
www.uaf.edu/seagrant/Pubs_Videos/pubs/M-25.html