It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the ... from laying undersea cables and calculating tsunami paths, to projecting how seas will rise as the ...

It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two sides of the mountain move away from each other, magma wells up from the Earth's interior. It then solidifies into rock as it is ...

The topography of the coastline and the ocean floor will influence the size ... succeeding one may be larger than the one before. That is why a small tsunami at one beach can be a giant wave ...

Located on the shoreline of Otsuchi Bay in Iwate prefecture, the ICRC had been directly in the tsunami’s path. “The wave reached the third floor of ... studied in detail before the tsunami.

Faultline rupture - The tsunami was triggered by the longest faultline rupture from an earthquake ever observed, seconds before 7:59 am on December 26, 2004. The ocean floor opened at least 1,200 ...

just six% of the ocean floor was properly mapped Understanding the ocean depths is crucial for everything from laying undersea cables and calculating tsunami paths, to projecting how seas will ...

“Our reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as we work to keep the public informed of the changing environment around them,” its website reads. “From daily ...