Tsunami Animation
March 15, 2011
Animation showing two different types of earthquake faults. The first, a strike slip fault, causes no tsunami. The second, along a subduction zone, does cause a tsunami. credit:
Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Topics:
Disaster Accident, Environment, Plate tectonics, Physical oceanography, Earthquake engineering, Cascadia earthquake, Indian Ocean earthquake, Fault, Subduction, Earthquake, Tsunamis, Structural geology