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Tsunami Hits New York City
What do you normally do with all the empty bottles, old clothes, and worn out shoes that pile up over the course of your life? If you’re like most people, they probably get thrown in the garbage to be shipped to a place far away. If you’re a little more ecologically minded, they get recycled or donated to charity. If you’re Jean Shin, they get converted into works of art.
Continue reading...Wave Vs. Man
Friday, September 19, 2008
Anyone who lives on the waves, or for them, has a healthy respect for the unbridled power of the seas. They know the destruction and devastation crashing walls of water can cause for they have observed Neptune’s wrath in the open ocean first-hand or they have ridden with him as one on the white-crested waves to shore.
Continue reading...Water Bores 5-Mile Hole In Glacier, Unleashes Riverbound Tsunami
Friday, April 11, 2008
The Colonial Glacier, located in Southern Chile, caused a nearby lake to swell last month and then empty rapidly down the Baker River, creating a mini-tsunami. Image from *hiro008 on Flickr The wave formed after melting water under increasing pressure bored through five miles of glacial [...]
Continue reading...Solar Tsunamis Filmed, Move Really Fast
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
I know that this comes as a shock, seeing as the sun is powered by the most powerful fusion reaction we can easily wrap our paltry little minds around, but the tsunamis of hot gas moving around its surface were filmed, and they move really, really fast. Image [...]
Continue reading...The 1,700 feet Tsunami that Struck Alaska
Friday, March 14, 2008
On the night of July 7th, 1958 the world’s largest Tsunami struck Lituya bay, located about 250 miles west of Juneau. It was 1,700 feet or 520 meters, almost twice the height of the Eiffel Tower. The Tsunami happened immediately after a magnitude 8.3 earthquake caused an enormous [...]
Continue reading...The Adriatic Sea is Closing
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Scientists have identified a new fault in the seafloor which could close off the Adriatic sea in the next 50 million years. One of the Dalmatian Islands The newly found fault runs under the Adriatic sea, the body of water between Italy and the Grecian peninsula. The fault is [...]
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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