Published October 2005
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Tsunamis and earthquakes: What physics is interesting?
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Stevenson, David
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In 1960, my elementary school in Wellington, New Zealand, was evacuated for fear of the tsunami from the great Chile earthquake, the largest in the past century. My school was about six feet above sea level, but (to our disappointment) no substantial wave arrived, and the disruption was brief. The tsunami from that earthquake crossed the Pacific Ocean and devastated downtown Hilo on the main island of Hawaii.
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© 2005 Geological Society of India. Reprinted with permission from American Institute of Physics from "Physics Today", v.58, no. 16, June 2005, pp. 10-11, for the benefit of our readers - Editor.Attached Files
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