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"@context": "http://schema.org/", "@type": "WebPage", "additionalType": "Research", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/pcmsc/science/tsunami-field-studies", "headline": "Tsunami Field Studies", "datePublished": "November 26, 2019", "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bruce Jaffe", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/bruce-jaffe", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "orcid", "value": "0000-0002-8816-5920" } }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Guy Gelfenbaum", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/guy-gelfenbaum", "identifier": { "@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "orcid", "value": "0000-0003-1291-6107" } } ], "description": [ { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Notes from the field" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Tsunamis, what triggers them, how they form, and more" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "A rapid-response team of USGS scientists traveled throughout American Samoa and Samoa in October and November, 2005, to collect data prior to its degradation or destruction by recovery activity and natural processes." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Includes older field photos from before the big tsunami (April 2010); eyewitness accounts in California after the tsunami had propagated across the Pacific (March 11, 2011); and reports from USGS scientists who visited Japan after the tsunami (May 2011)." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Initial findings on tsunami sand deposits, damage, and inundation in Sumatra:" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Learn about tsunami triggers and watch computer simulations" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Our tsunami scientists work on international teams to study the aftermath of tsunamis around the world, to gain a better understanding the impact of potential tsunamis on coastal communities of the United States. Their work helps inform local, state, and federal coastal planning, protection, and resiliency." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Preliminary analysis of sedimentary deposits from the tsunami" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "In September and October, scientists collected data, assessed damage to buildings and structures, and examined the sediments left behind by the tsunami. The group included representatives from Japan, the United States, Korea, and Papua New Guinea." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Initial findings on tsunami sand deposits, damage, and inundation in Sri Lanka:" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "USGS scientists study impacts of tsunami" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "January 2005" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "In early September 2001, a group of scientists from the United States and Peru cooperated in a study of sediment deposited by the tsunami." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "USGS scientists traveled twice to Sumatra, the first time in January 2005 immediately after the first earthquake and tsunami, and again in April of 2005 after the second event." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Field study of the effects of the December 2004 and March 2005 earthquakes and tsunamis:" }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "April 2005" } ], "funder": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/pcmsc" }, "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Science Technology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Coastal and Marine Hazards" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Fault Systems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Coasts" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Paleotsunamis" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Hazards" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Ocean" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Water" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Information Systems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Earthquakes and Faults" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Earthquakes" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Forecasts and Models" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Tsunamis" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Natural Hazards" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Methods and Analysis" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Energy" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Environmental Health" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Geology" } ]
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