There are disasters. There are megadisasters. And now there are complex megadisasters. From The Christian Science Monitor: Mega-quakes and mega-disasters: Will US heed wake-up call in Japan? The crisis in Japan could be considered the first "complex megadisaster" the world has ever seen — a potent combination of natural and technological calamities that might become …
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Japan tsunami propagation video and graphic
From the NOAA Center for Tsunami Research --- Honshu Tsunami Propagation Animation showing the spread of the March 11 tsunami: Note how the waves reflect and refract, just like you learned about in high school physics. Also from NOAA, a plot of the maximum amplitude of the tsunami: Note the faint gray contours; they represent …
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