Animation: Subduction Zone Tsunami

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| Tue Mar. 15, 2011 6:00 PM PDT


This animation by Miho Aoki at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Art Department illustrates how a tsunami is generated by a subduction zone earthquake—the same type as Japan's 2011 Sendai temblor. Really big subduction zone quakes can displace massive areas of seabed and generate monster tsunamis.

 

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