tsunami!!! images came from all over – orbview for the space based recent images – pacific...

Tsunami!!!Images came from all over – OrbView for the space based recent images –

Pacific Tsunami Museum – some via BBC.

Sumatra (Aceh)Sri Lanka

• An Earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia rocked down a lot of houses – and sent off a tsunami to kill even more.

• The tsunami killed people as far away as Somalia and Kenya in East Africa

• The Sri Lankan coastline is fairly shallow – the red represents about 5 meter elevation. Sometimes 2km inland, or more!

How About Hawaii??

• What was Shinmachi?

• Where was Waiakea??

• What about Laupahoehoe?

• 1946 & 1960

Bad Idea – looking for fish!

1957

Downtown

1946

Coconut Island

1946

Coconut Island - receding

1946

Harbor

1946

Hilo Traintracks

1946

1946

Kress Building

1946

1946

1946

Midway Atoll 1952 – Kamchatka earthquake

Hilo 1960

1960 Chile Earthquake

Suisan – waiting for 1960

1960

Near Suisan

1960

1960

1960

Hilo - 1960

Phuket – Thailand - 2004

Samoa / American Samoa / Tonga

Earthquake2009

Leone

Leone

Pago Pago

Pago Pago

Pago Pago

Pago Pago

Fagatogo

Fagatogo