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Friday, February 8th 2008
3:00 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. David Yuen, U Minnesota, Geology
Subject: Tsunami Waves Along the Chinese Coast from Earthquakes Along Nearby Subducting Zones
Refreshments served in 358 Physics at 4:00pm
In this talk we will discuss about the nature of tsunami waves and the way probability of tsunami hazards can be estimated from using basic earthquake physics and hydrodynamics. We have used the earthquake statistics and the nonlinear shallow water equations to model the waveheight which can appear on the shorelines along the Chinese coast.
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