Tsunami

environment-and-climate-risk

Residents and visitors often ask about tsunami risk along the Virginia Beach coastline. A tsunami in Virginia Beach is unlikely to resemble the catastrophic events seen in Japan...

science-geology

A mega quake in Japan refers to a very large earthquake, generally with a magnitude of 8 or higher, that occurs on or near the nation’s densely populated islands and complex p...

geoscience

A tsunami is a sequence of ocean waves with very long wavelengths and periods, most often caused by abrupt vertical displacement of the seafloor during undersea earthquakes, lan...

environment

A Ventura tsunami is a low-probability but high-consequence event in which strong ground shaking from a nearby undersea earthquake generates a series of destructive waves affect...

hazards

Tsunamis in the Canary Islands are uncommon but potentially high-impact events, driven primarily by undersea earthquakes, volcanic flank collapses, and, in rarer scenarios, land...