Really cool tsunami animation

Undertoad · 12-27-2004, 11:43 AM

Katkeeper found a really great GIF animation that shows how the tsunami's waves worked but at over 600k, it's too large for IotD, so i've linked it.

wolf · 12-27-2004, 01:31 PM

Incredible. Does the red and blue coloring have any significance beyond clarity? Do the color changes represent different quakes or aftershocks or anything like that?

russotto · 12-27-2004, 08:47 PM

I'd guess that red is underwater and blue is surface.

zippyt · 12-27-2004, 09:05 PM

This is VERRY cool animation!!!!
Question , they call hurracanes monsoons in the pacific ,what would you call a tsunami in the atlantic ???

Beestie · 12-27-2004, 10:09 PM

A tidal wave.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-27-2004, 11:13 PM

Damn, I'd have ocean front property.......for a few minutes.

Elspode · 12-27-2004, 11:17 PM

Looking at the animation, I think that red represents initial wave energy, and blue represents reflected wave energy.

Katkeeper · 12-28-2004, 07:24 AM

I was wondering why this didn't make IOTD. I was about to disinherit UT.

Billy · 12-28-2004, 07:44 AM

It is a sad Christmas for Eastsouth Asia.

glatt · 12-28-2004, 12:57 PM

I don't know why, but I got to wondering about Diego Garcia, and the US base there. I knew that it was a low lying island in the Indian Ocean. I thought it might have experienced some problems. I looked it up in a map, because I wasn't quite sure where exactly it was located. Turns out it's one of the dots on the lower left in this thread's animation, in a direct line from the epicenter of the quake. The animation starts over again before the wave hits the island, so I'm not sure if they actually got hit, but it looks like it. Even Somalia lost a couple hundred people, and this base is much closer to the epicenter.

So I did a Google news search. According to Stars and Stripes, nobody on Diego Garcia noticed anything that day. The highest point of the island is only 22 feet above mean sea level, so the place could have been completely submerged if it had been hit.

Apparently, according to another paper source, Diego Garcia was one of the few islands in the Indian Ocean that actually got a warning in advance of the tsunamis. I wonder if they did anything to prepare. There are no hills to run to in Diego Garcia.

Undertoad · 12-28-2004, 01:01 PM

San Diego noticed a rise in sea level of 22cm. New Zealand's levels were like 50cm up.

Elspode · 12-28-2004, 01:05 PM

If Diego Garcia is a relatively steep rise from the ocean floor, the tsunami could have essentially flowed around the island, not having had any "shelf" to pile up on or against.

Undertoad · 12-28-2004, 01:07 PM

I just want to say that when I mentioned San Diego I did not think it was Diego Garcia.

Kitsune · 12-28-2004, 01:11 PM

Amazing. Possibly more than 44,000 dead. They'll probably never know the full extent, either, as entire families could have been washed out to sea.

Is anyone else somewhat creeped out that the US news didn't really pick this up? The BBC did extensive reporting for hours on this disaster while CNN/Fox/MSN spent much more time reporting on the "lackluster holiday sales increase" of only ~3%. Yawn.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-28-2004, 08:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Katkeeper

I was wondering why this didn't make IOTD. I was about to disinherit UT.

Exchange the jacket for puce.

12-27-2004, 11:43 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Really cool tsunami animation Katkeeper found a really great GIF animation that shows how the tsunami's waves worked but at over 600k, it's too large for IotD, so i've linked it.

12-27-2004, 01:31 PM	#2
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Incredible. Does the red and blue coloring have any significance beyond clarity? Do the color changes represent different quakes or aftershocks or anything like that? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

12-27-2004, 09:05 PM	#4
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	This is VERRY cool animation!!!! Question , they call hurracanes monsoons in the pacific ,what would you call a tsunami in the atlantic ??? __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

12-27-2004, 10:09 PM	#5
Beestie -◊\|≡·∙■·∙≡\|◊- Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Parts unknown. Posts: 4,081	A tidal wave. __________________ ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦

12-27-2004, 11:13 PM	#6
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Damn, I'd have ocean front property.......for a few minutes. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-27-2004, 08:47 PM	#3
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	I'd guess that red is underwater and blue is surface.

12-27-2004, 11:17 PM	#7
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Looking at the animation, I think that red represents initial wave energy, and blue represents reflected wave energy. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

12-28-2004, 07:24 AM	#8
Katkeeper Hoodoo Guru Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Mechanicsburg PA Posts: 296	I was wondering why this didn't make IOTD. I was about to disinherit UT.

12-28-2004, 07:44 AM	#9
Billy Professor Join Date: May 2003 Location: Germany Posts: 1,462	It is a sad Christmas for Eastsouth Asia.

12-28-2004, 12:57 PM	#10
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I don't know why, but I got to wondering about Diego Garcia, and the US base there. I knew that it was a low lying island in the Indian Ocean. I thought it might have experienced some problems. I looked it up in a map, because I wasn't quite sure where exactly it was located. Turns out it's one of the dots on the lower left in this thread's animation, in a direct line from the epicenter of the quake. The animation starts over again before the wave hits the island, so I'm not sure if they actually got hit, but it looks like it. Even Somalia lost a couple hundred people, and this base is much closer to the epicenter. So I did a Google news search. According to Stars and Stripes, nobody on Diego Garcia noticed anything that day. The highest point of the island is only 22 feet above mean sea level, so the place could have been completely submerged if it had been hit. Apparently, according to another paper source, Diego Garcia was one of the few islands in the Indian Ocean that actually got a warning in advance of the tsunamis. I wonder if they did anything to prepare. There are no hills to run to in Diego Garcia.

12-28-2004, 01:01 PM	#11
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	San Diego noticed a rise in sea level of 22cm. New Zealand's levels were like 50cm up.

12-28-2004, 01:05 PM	#12
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	If Diego Garcia is a relatively steep rise from the ocean floor, the tsunami could have essentially flowed around the island, not having had any "shelf" to pile up on or against. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

12-28-2004, 01:07 PM	#13
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I just want to say that when I mentioned San Diego I did not think it was Diego Garcia.

12-28-2004, 01:11 PM	#14
Kitsune still eats dirt Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 3,031	Amazing. Possibly more than 44,000 dead. They'll probably never know the full extent, either, as entire families could have been washed out to sea. Is anyone else somewhat creeped out that the US news didn't really pick this up? The BBC did extensive reporting for hours on this disaster while CNN/Fox/MSN spent much more time reporting on the "lackluster holiday sales increase" of only ~3%. Yawn.

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