Like a bowlful of Jell-O
NOAA has released more tsunami-related information, including an incredible animation of the effect of the Indian Ocean earthquake on the entire world. Based on sattelite data that tracked the progress of the waves from its source just off Sumatra, it makes the earth look like one big bowl of gelatin.
The waves were weakened by the time they hit the United States, but they did, both coasts at roughly the same time. It's interesting that the Atlantic coast got more of a punch than we did over here on the Pacific.
View the Quicktime movie here [http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/video/tsunami-worldpropagation2004.mov] and there are other formats at the NOAA website [http://www.noaa.gov].
It's a small world after all.
The waves were weakened by the time they hit the United States, but they did, both coasts at roughly the same time. It's interesting that the Atlantic coast got more of a punch than we did over here on the Pacific.
View the Quicktime movie here [http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/video/tsunami-worldpropagation2004.mov] and there are other formats at the NOAA website [http://www.noaa.gov].
It's a small world after all.
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