Selected Image and Video Resources
This graph shows the percentages of tsunami causes: 77% of tsunamis are caused by earthquakes, 10% of causes are unknown, 6% caused by volcanic activity, 4% by meteorological events, and 3% by landslides.
Additional media resources may be found by searching the Films on Demand database. https://libguides.sbuniv.edu/FOD
- Waves of Destruction: History's Biggest and Deadliest TsunamisA Daily Mail resource
Tsunamis
NOAA defines a tsunami as "a series of waves caused by earthquakes or undersea volcanic eruptions." -- What is a tsunami?
- Physical criteria for distinguishing sandy tsunami and storm deposits using modern examplesUSGS, Bruce Jaffe,1/1/2007
- IOC Tsunami ProgrammeAn Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission web resource
- Tsunami, The Great WavesInternational Tsunami Information Center
- Tsunami and Earthquake Research at the USGSFrom the Oct. 2011 Choice review: "Tsunamis and Earthquakes contains overview documents with details about recent earthquakes and resulting tsunamis from selected events since 1998."
- Tsunami VisualizationsCompiled by John McDaris and Monica Bruckner at Carleton College.
- How do volcanic eruptions generate tsunamis?International Tsunami Information Center, A UNESCO/IOC-NOAA Partnership
- Volcanic TsunamisVolcano World, Oregon State University
Historic Tsunamis
- December 26, 2004 Indonesian Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami Web Link Compilation and DataA NOAA Center for Tsunami Research resource
- Earthquakes and Tsunamis in Sumatra: What We Have Recently LearnedA California Institute of Technology resource
- Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004An Encyclopedia Britannica resource
- Killing off the Canary Islands landslide megatsunami scareAUG Blogosphere, Posted by Dave Petley, Dec. 13, 2013
- Mega-tsunami: Wave of Destruction [East Coast, United States]BBC video transcript
- Monster Tsunami May Have Created Madagascar's Giant Sand DunesLiveScience.com, By Charles Q. Choi January 13, 2016. "Sometime in the past 8,000 years, a meteor may have hit the Indian Ocean, triggering a monster tsunami that struck Africa, a new study suggests." -- website
- What Triggered Tsunamis that Demolished Bronze-Age Civilization? (Santorini)LiveScience,by Kacey Deamer, Staff Writer, November 8, 2016
- Post-eruptive flooding of Santorini caldera and implications for tsunami generationNature Communications 7, Article number: 13332 (2016) doi:10.1038/ncomms13332
Seiches
NOAA defines a seiche as a "standing wave oscillating in a body of water." -- What is a seiche?
- Italy Vajont anniversary: Night of the 'tsunami'By Mark Duff BBC News, Longarone, Oct. 10, 2013
- Ancient tsunami devastated Lake Geneva shorelineMarshall, J. Ancient tsunami devastated Lake Geneva shoreline. Nature (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2012.11670
- Ancient Tsunami Swept Through Swiss LakeLivescience.com, by Charles Q. Choi, 10/28/2012
- Evidence Discovered of an Ancient Tsunami on Lake GenevaBy Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonianmag.com, 10/30/2012
- Seismic SeichesAn USGS publication
- Seiches: Sudden, Large Waves a Lake Michigan DangerAn Illinois State Geological Survey resource
- Sensors use rhythmic waves to keep tabs on Yellowstone Lake volcanoDiscusses seiches at Yellowstone. A Montana Standard resource, April 13, 2013 By Brett French of the Billings Gazette
- Illustration of Yellowstone Lake and seiche frequencyUSGS, Source: Luttrell et al., 2013
- Tsunami research ongoing at Lake TahoeTahoe Daily Tribune, 1/9/2021
- Tsunami at Lake Tahoe?Cheyanne Neuffer, Reno Gazette Journal, 1/18/2021
- What is a seiche?National Ocean Service, NOAA
Featured Resources
- Bermuda Triangle Earthquake Triggered 1817 TsunamiBy Becky Oskin, staff writer, Live Science, September 09, 2013 03:26pm ET
- US East Coast Faces Variety of Tsunami ThreatsDouglas Main, OurAmazingPlanet Staff Writer, November 15, 2012 03:44pm ET (LiveScience)
Featured eBooks
Doggerland/Storegga Slide
- The moment Britain became an islandBy Megan Lane, BBC News Magazine
15 February 2011 - Ancient underwater forest discovered off Norfolk coastBBC News, 26 January 2015
- Catastrophic Final Flooding of Doggerland by the Storegga Slide TsunamiDocumenta Praehistorica XXXV (2008)
- Britain's Atlantis Found at Bottom of North SeaA Daily Mail article
- DigVentures lecture by Prof Vince Gaffney on Europe's Lost Land. DVIP9A lecture on Doggerland, featuring Vince Gaffney, Chair in Landscape Archaeology and Geomatics, University of Birmingham
- Hidden Histories: Welcome to Doggerland!Youtube video
- Lost WorldAn article by Laura Spinney, Nature 454. 7201 (Jul 10, 2008): 151-153.
- Patterns of isostatic land uplift during the Holocene: evidence from mainland Scotland.Smith, D.E., R.A. Cullingford, and C.R. Firth. Holocene 10.4 (2000): 489-501.
- Prehistoric North Sea 'Atlantis' hit by 5m tsunamiBBC News-Science and Environment, article by Paul Rincon 30 April 2014.
- Submarine landslides and tsunami threat to ScotlandDavid Long and Richard Holmes, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, Scotland. ITS 2001 Proceedings, Session 1, Number 1-12, p. 355-366
- The terrifying tsunami that devastated BritainBBC, Amanda Ruggeri, 3/29/2016