Scientists: Tsunami Could Hit West Coast
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Tsunami scientists and public safety officials are closely watching an earthquake-prone nation with thousands of miles of crowded coastlines for signs of an imminent disaster. Indonesia? Japan? Try the United States.
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The United States is moving on several fronts toward a global tsunami warning system following the Asian catastrophe.
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A day after the strongest earthquake in 40 years, the effects were still being felt around the globe. The massive tsunamis created by the quake were so powerful that they spread into and across the Pacific Ocean, causing the sea to fluctuate almost a foot in San Diego and nearly 9 feet in one city on Mexico's west coast, according ...
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Environmental researchers said climate change is changing the way scientists view the future of ocean resources off the U.S. West Coast.
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A strong earthquake measuring 6.8 on the open-ended Richter scale has shaken western Japan and officials have issued tsunami warnings, reports broadcaster NHK.
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A warning center such as those used  along the Pacific Rim could have saved most of the thousands of  people who died in Asia's earthquake and tsunami, a U.S.  Geological Survey official said on Sunday.
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Sediment folding may have added to the exceptionally large tsunami that struck Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, according to an international team of geologists.
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Diarrhea, malaria, dengue fever, and even meningitis and flu may be waiting to cause a second wave of misery across Indian Ocean coastal areas devastated by Sunday's tsunami, experts said on Thursday.
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Tokyo - A strong earthquake measuring 6.8 on the open-ended Richter scale shook western Japan on Sunday and officials issued tsunami warnings, broadcaster NHK reported.
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A particularly sinister form of fault may lie beneath Marin County and could trigger an earthquake of up to 6.5 magnitude, perhaps during this century, scientists plan to report at the American Geophysical Union conference Thursday.
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(InfoWorld) - Governments seeking inexpensive technology to warn of tsunamis could be interested in a free software application that monitors vibrations in the hard disks of computers in an attempt to detect the underseaÂ earthquakes that cause tsunamis. The Tsunami Harddisk Detector is the brainchild of Michael Stadler, who demonstrated the prototype system earlier this week at the Ars Electronica exhibition in Linz, Austria. As part of their operation, hard disks measure vibrations in order to keep the read-write head of the disk on track. These measurements can be read from some hard disks. The Tsunami Harddisk Detector captures this vibration data and shares it with computers in other locations connected via a peer-to-peer network to determine whether an earth tremor is occurring. In the p-to-p network, several participating computers act as supernodes, which analyze the data received from the other "sensing" nodes. The supernodes are able to ignore vibrations generated by a computer being kicked or shaken, by recording how many computers report the same vibrations simultaneously. If an earthquake that could lead to a tsunami is detected, the supernodes inform the other nodes. Computers running the client software and connected to the p-to-p network can then warn of such events. The software is able to provide such warnings because the seismic waves produced by earthquakes travel at about 5,000 kilometers per hour, while tsunamis move much slower at 500 to 1,000 kilometers per hour, Stadler explains on hisÂ Web site. The speed difference leaves time to evaluate tremors and, if necessary, warn of a tsunami. On his Web site, however, Stadler points out that his system is still in the experimental stage with some inherent problems and can't be fully relied on to provide a "serious prediction" of a tsunami risk in its present configuration.
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Survivors from the gargantuan tsunami that swept across Asia and killed more than 23,000 will face a host of new threats in the coming days and weeks: viruses and bacteria in the water, diseases
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A 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck near southern Indonesia today, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Ken Navidad at the USGS said the tsunami centers in the Pacific and Alaska initially said two quakes, but he did not know why. He said his agency has measured only one.
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Sweden now seems likely to be the Western country hardest hit by the tsunamis that wrecked the southern Asian coastlines the day after Christmas and killed more than 100,000 people.
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Scientists say they understand more about how cholera - a threat after Asia's tsunami - spreads.
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The United States will extend its  tsunami warning system to new areas in the Pacific Ocean, and  for the first time, to the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea  and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Hawaii is among the most tsunami-ready places in the world. When an alert is issued, beachside sirens go off and urgent messages are flashed on television and broadcast on radio. Evacuation maps on telephone book covers point people to higher ground. But most of the time, no damaging tsunami hits the shore.