Tag Archives: tsunami

“They Finally Found the Proof”: This Hidden North Sea Crater Came From a Deadly Asteroid Impact (and It Triggered a 330-Foot Tsunami)  Rude Baguette Source link

Giant Asteroid Struck North Sea, Unleashing 330-Feet Tsunami  SciTechDaily Unusual Crater in The North Sea Result of a Cosmic Collision, Study Confirms  ScienceAlert “Scientists Call It Proof Of Violence”: Silverpit Crater Study Confirms Asteroid Impact And Reveals Tsunami That Reshaped North Sea 50 Million Years Ago  Sustainability Times A Massive Asteroid Hit Earth and Created This 330-Foot Tsunami  The Daily Galaxy Asteroid impact in …

A massive earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in late July triggered a tsunami that rippled across the Pacific — and NASA’s experimental detection system tracked the event in real-time by monitoring the atmosphere above. NASA’s GUARDIAN (GNSS Upper Atmospheric Real-time Disaster Information and Alert Network) taps into signals from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), like GPS. When a tsunami forms, …

While GNSS processing methods on Earth correct for such distortions, GUARDIAN uses them as clues. The software scours a trove of data transmitted to more than 350 continuously operating GNSS ground stations around the world. It can potentially identify evidence of a tsunami up to about 745 miles (1,200 kilometers) from a given station. In ideal situations, vulnerable coastal communities …

North Carolina’s Sandhills just got a startling update to their past. Geologists have identified a thin package of layers that record an extraterrestrial hit and the tsunami that followed, tucked into a hillside in Moore County. The layers sit in a shallow channel carved into older Eocene sands and clays. The team named this young package the Mount Helicon Formation …

How 30 years of NOAA research led to one very accurate and timely tsunami forecast  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (.gov) NASA’s SWOT satellite captures Kamchatka megaquake tsunami in striking detail  ScienceDaily Geology professor breaks down earthquake activity in Carolinas following major earthquake near Russia  WBTV Old clips misrepresented online after Russian mega-quake  AFP Fact Check 8.8 magnitude quake strikes off Russia’s Far …

As millions of Americans rely on Social Security for their monthly income, new reports indicate the program’s finances are at a critical juncture. Here’s what every current or soon-to-be recipient should understand about the future of Social Security, the risks to your benefits, and what steps Congress could take to keep the program strong. When will Social Security “run out …

Data provided by the water satellite, a joint effort between NASA and the French space agency, is helping to improve tsunami forecast models, benefitting coastal communities. The SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite captured the tsunami spawned by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on July 30, 11:25 a.m. local time. The satellite, a …

The SWOT data on the height, shape, and direction of the tsunami wave is key to improving these types of forecast models. “The satellite observations help researchers to better reverse engineer the cause of a tsunami, and in this case, they also showed us that NOAA’s tsunami forecast was right on the money,” said Josh Willis, a JPL oceanographer. The …

Facebook Tweet Email Link As powerful waves surged across the vast Pacific on Wednesday, people around the world remained glued to their phones, tracking the tsunami’s fast progress. But in China, more than a million people were searching for an unusual term: “Prophecy.” That’s because, for some, the natural disaster had seemingly been foretold four years earlier, in a Japanese …