http://www.acehtsunami.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:13:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The people of Tipperary who contributed €150,000 to the Irish Red Cross following the 2005 Asian tsunami have been encouraged that the money collected was spent on vital projects in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Following a confession this week that a bank account containing the €150,000 collected by the ... http://www.acehtsunami.com/funds-contributed-to-tsunami-relief-remains-untouched.php The continents and sea floor that wrap the earth's surface are part of a world-wide system of plates that are in movement. These movements are quite slow, only an inch or two per year. Earthquakes occur where the edges of plates run into one another. Such boundaries are called fault ... http://www.acehtsunami.com/causes-of-tsunami.php Oahu's tsunami evacuation maps will be simplified for the first time in 19 years, in response to the updated ocean-floor data.The city Department of Emergency Management will clutch public outreach workshops on the 21 maps outlining zones that must be abandoned. That's two more regions than in the 1991 set ... http://www.acehtsunami.com/tsunami-maps-to-demonstrate-new-evacuation-zones.php University scientists using Global Positioning System (GPS) software developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., have shown that GPS can determine, within minutes, whether an earthquake is big enough to generate an ocean-wide tsunami. This NASA-funded technology can be used to provide faster tsunami warnings. A team led by Dr. ... http://www.acehtsunami.com/nasa-tsunami-research-makes-waves-in-science-community-2.php A NASA-led research team has successfully demonstrated for the first time elements of a prototype tsunami prediction system that quickly and accurately assesses large earthquakes and estimates the size of resulting tsunamis. After the magnitude 8.8 Chilean earthquake on Feb. 27, a team led by Y. Tony Song of NASA's ... http://www.acehtsunami.com/nasa-demonstrates-tsunami-prediction-system.php The twin STEREO spacecraft confirmed their reality in February 2009 when sunspot 11012 unexpectedly erupted. The blast hurled a billion-ton cloud of gas (a coronal mass ejection, or CME) into space and sent a tsunami racing along the sun's surface. STEREO recorded the wave from two positions separated by 90 degrees, ... http://www.acehtsunami.com/do-solar-tsunamis-exist.php Tsunamis this large don't happen on Earth. A large solar flare from an Earth-sized sunspot produced a tsunami-type shock wave that was spectacular even for the Sun. The tsunami wave was captured moving out from active region AR 10930 by the Optical Solar Patrol Network (OSPAN) telescope in New Mexico, USA. ... http://www.acehtsunami.com/a-large-tsunami-shock-wave-on-the-sun.php On May 18, 1980, the upper 460 meters of Mount St. Helens failed and detached in a huge landslide. This released the pressure on the magma trapped beneath the summit bulge which exploded as a lateral blast, which then released the over-pressure on the magma chamber and resulted in ... http://www.acehtsunami.com/mega-tsunami.php While workers at sea continue to react to the massive BP oil leak, there are substances beneath the surfaces of the waters and sand that may create problems in the future. Numerous recent Internet reports and e-mails notify that an enormous methane gas bubble underneath the Gulf of Mexico seabed ... http://www.acehtsunami.com/methane-bubble-induced-tsunami-highly-improbable.php Tsunami (pronounced soo-NAH-mee) is a Japanese word. Tsunamis are quite common in Japan and many thousands of Japanese have been killed by them in sequence of waves, also known as a wave train. The first wave in a tsunami is not necessarily the most destructive. Tsunamis are not tidal waves. • ... http://www.acehtsunami.com/facts-about-tsunami.php