On Monday, Google released
Memories for the Future, a website that allows you to "... walk the scarred coastline [after the Japanese tsunami] virtually". "
... it is possible to see the full extent of the damage by finding an image in Street View and then clicking the “Before” and “After” links at the top to see how the earthquake and tsunami impacted that area." The Japan Real Time blog has a
good introduction and writeup.
posted by woodblock100
on Dec 13, 2011 -
9 comments
GQ: The Man Who Sailed His House. On the third day after the Japanese tsunami, after the waves had left their destruction, as rescue workers searched the ruins, news came of an almost surreal survival: Nine miles out at sea, a man had been found alone, riding on nothing but the roof of his house. [more inside]
posted by zarq
on Oct 13, 2011 -
19 comments
This is how it will happen. Let’s pick a day: June 22, 2012. It’s a gorgeous Friday afternoon in the Pacific Northwest, 75 degrees and sunny. It’s been raining for weeks, and in Seattle the freeways are jammed with people fleeing the city to enjoy the rare sunshine. Same story in Portland. Out on the coast, the beach towns are thrumming with tourists.
How a monster earthquake and resulting tsunami would affect the coast and cities of the Pacific NW.
posted by jontyjago
on Aug 26, 2011 -
152 comments
The Honeymoon From Hell. Stefan and Erika Svanstrom had planned a long trip that would start in Singapore in early December and end in China four months later.
But things didn't go exactly as planned. They encountered floods, fires, tsunamis and earthquakes along the way.
posted by mannequito
on May 6, 2011 -
14 comments
Amidst the massive aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami being discussed in
this thread, the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plants
continues to unfold. For objective information, discussion, and analysis of the ongoing efforts to stabilize the fuel cores in the boiling water reactors of the type in Fukushima, nuclear engineers such as
@arclight are providing laypeople with a much needed crash course on the inner workings of nuclear reactors.
[more inside]
posted by Dr. Zira
on Mar 12, 2011 -
3157 comments
“I think she was a very nice lady who was in way over her head,” said (the local SPCA general manager). “She was probably in a situation where she started with one chihuahua and it had babies. People get attached to them and feel that nobody can do as good a job [caring for them], so they end up keeping them. Then other people find out she is the chihuahua lady — her boss died and gave her 12. Pretty soon, her babies are having babies and it’s out of control.” SPCA swamped with tsunami of chihuahuas
posted by KokuRyu
on Aug 9, 2010 -
52 comments
SaveLivesInMay - "I have received information psychically, which is corroborated by scientific data, according to which on
May 25, 2006 a giant tsunami will occur in the Atlantic Ocean, brought about by the impact of a comet fragment which will provoke the eruption of under-sea volcanoes. Waves up to 200 m high will reach coastlines located above and below the Tropic of Cancer."
Are you at risk? Meanwhile,
FEMA just happens to be preoccupied on the
Wrong West Coast.
posted by jahmoon
on May 24, 2006 -
51 comments
The Day the Sea Came. The stories of six people caught up in last December's tsunami.
Maisara did not look back. She could hear an odd, ever-louder roar. But she never actually saw what she was running from. Only Anis, looking over her mother's left shoulder, beheld the oncoming water. "Mama, what is that?" the little girl kept yelling.
I know, it's the
Times, it's long, it's old news, but it's absolutely riveting. Great reporting by Barry Bearak, and for this you need a reporter, not a novelist, because you can't make this stuff up.
Part 1 (
printer-friendly),
Part 2 (
printer),
Part 3 (
printer),
Part 4 (
printer).
posted by languagehat
on Nov 27, 2005 -
25 comments
The Sound of a Distant Rumble: Using monitoring devices originally intended to pick up the sound of nuke launches, researchers track the underwater noise generated by the December 26 (
tsunami) earthquake.
Eerie audio file of the slowly-building roar is included on the page. (More info
here as well)
posted by numlok
on Jul 22, 2005 -
9 comments
Worth picking up if you have a library with a subscription. The May 20th issue of Science was devoted to the
Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of December 24 describing the full power of that event, the most powerful recorded since the deployment of modern electronic sensors. The
multiple effects claimed include swarm earthquakes in Alaska, a shock wave that moved every place on Earth a centimeter, and resonant waves continuing weeks after the event. It is also the
the longest rupture recorded and took over an hour to complete. Animated simulations of aspects of the event are linked through
PhysOrg.com.
posted by KirkJobSluder
on Jun 3, 2005 -
4 comments
A
Vancouver couple were only recently identified as victims of the Asian Tsunami. While they didn't survive, their
photos of the approaching wave did. (First link includes info on how to donate to family's memorial fund.)
posted by mudpuppie
on Feb 23, 2005 -
47 comments
Tsunami visualizations Visualizations of recent and historical tsunami episodes, collected by John McDaris at Carleton College. Includes large but visually effective animations, such as this
NOAA visualization of the global propagation of the 26/12/04 tsunami (24MB Quicktime).
posted by carter
on Feb 1, 2005 -
2 comments