tsunami by satellite.../photos

[Hank49]

it makes me look around where I live and wonder what it would look like had it happened here.

Certainly makes you change your opinion about beach front properties huh?

Imagine the asteroid that hit near you and supposedly wiped out the dinoaurs. It probably made this tsunami look like a ripple.

 

[Mako Mark]

Imagine the asteroid that hit near you and supposedly wiped out the dinoaurs. It probably made this tsunami look like a ripple.

the first time I drove to merida from Cancun, I was about 30 mins out of Merida when the bus went over a slight rise and there was a road cut, then the road started to descent slightly into Merida. It took me a little while, but I realised I had just gone over the Chicxulub crater rim. Truly one of the worlds greatest geomorphic wonders, its just a shame it is so hard to see from the ground.

 

[Hank49]

the first time I drove to merida from Cancun, I was about 30 mins out of Merida when the bus went over a slight rise and there was a road cut, then the road started to descent slightly into Merida. It took me a little while, but I realised I had just gone over the Chicxulub crater rim. Truly one of the worlds greatest geomorphic wonders, its just a shame it is so hard to see from the ground.

I found this site about the Chicxulub impact that estimated the runup, or tsumani after impact to have been 150 to 200 meters high in Venezuela, 100-150 in North Africa and 100 meters in Europe. Another showed a model that demonstrated the same effect as dropping a large stone into the water and the "fountain" that follows. Hard to fathom something like that.
www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/LPSC99/pdf/1527.pdf

 

[dlndavid]

I found this site about the Chicxulub impact that estimated the runup, or tsumani after impact to have been 150 to 200 meters high in Venezuela, 100-150 in North Africa and 100 meters in Europe. Another showed a model that demonstrated the same effect as dropping a large stone into the water and the "fountain" that follows. Hard to fathom something like that.
www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/LPSC99/pdf/1527.pdf

Some pictures and animation

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/asteroid_jello_001122.html

 

[CBulla]

NOAA has an excellent set of movies as well:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2365.htm

 

[howard4113]

You can find tsunami satellite images at
http://www.spaceimaging.com

Mark

 

[cdiver2]

http://www.homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/

 

[tx.lakerats]

Just mind blowing at the damage ....

 

[cdiver2]

# five really blow my mind you would think there had never been anything there

 

[tx.lakerats]

Wow... the power and the force that water holds