Tohoku Tsunami Creates Antarctic Icebergs
August 10, 2011
Nearly 50 square miles of ice broke off the Sulzberger Ice Shelf on the coast of Antarctica, resulting from waves generated by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.
credit: NASA
Topics:
Environment, Disaster Accident, Hazard prevention, Ice shelves of Antarctica, Physical oceanography, Indian Ocean earthquake, Iceberg, Sulzberger Bay, Tsunami, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Antarctica, Japan