We are going to work with some tsunami data from the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and from the 11 March Tohoku-Oki earthquake. Before we do so, I want you to get a sense about the scientific community's study of those earthquakes, so I've picked a couple of articles that describe the techniques used to record the earthquakes and what we have learned so far.
The following articles are all linked from Lesson 2 in Canvas or through the links provided.
Interested in learning more? "Anatomy of a Tsunami" [5] is an interactive flash movie from Teachers' Domain and Nova Online about the Sumatra-Andaman tsunami.
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Links
[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/sci;308/5725/1125
[2] http://jgreenwood.web.wesleyan.edu/wescourses/2006f/ees155/01/ParkEOSpt2.pdf
[3] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2011EO500003/epdf
[4] https://fromtheprow.agu.org/lessons-from-the-tohoku-oki-earthquake/
[5] http://witf.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.watcyc.anatomytsunami/anatomy-of-a-tsunami/