Tsunamis

Tsunami Education - Learn the story behind tsunamis, and how to respond to a tsunami warning.
http://www.tsunami.noaa.gov/education.html

West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center - Features safety brochures and statistics about tsunami and earthquakes. Can be downloaded as PDF documents for printing.
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/

Tsunami Trivia - Find the right picture to answer these questions, and do a word search. [PDF]
http://www.tsunami.noaa.gov/pdfs/Tsunami-Trivia.pdf

Tsunami! - Answers many questions about the topic. What does tsunami mean? How are they created? What happens to a tsunami as it approaches land?
http://www.ess.washington.edu/tsunami/index.html

Wikipedia - 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake - Country by country reports of damage, historical and regional comparisons. Includes technical information on the quake and plate tectonics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake

Tsunami Warning - Read this story about what causes tsunamis and what to do if one happens near you.
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/book01.htm

Tsunami, The Great Waves - Learn what causes tsunamis, the damage they can cause, and what to do if a tsunami is coming.
http://ioc3.unesco.org/itic/contents.php?id=169

Killer Wave - Learn all about tsunamis and how most form from undersea earthquakes. Get facts, stories, maps and pictures from National Geographic Kids magazine.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/9610/kwave/

Wave That Shook the World - Answers questions about the Indian Ocean tsunami and also describes how these huge waves are formed and where they have happened in the past.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tsunami/

University of Southern California Tsunami Research Group - Shows where tsunamis have struck in the past and what they have done.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/

Biggest Tsunami Countdown - A countdown of the five biggest tsunami events in recorded history.
http://fohn.net/biggest-tsunami/

Tsunamis - Features some brief facts about these gigantic waves and how they are formed.
http://www.fema.gov/kids/tsunami.htm

Pacific Tsunami Museum - Promotes public education about tsunamis for the people of Hawaii and the Pacific Region. Includes answers to commonly asked questions and tsunami photographs.
http://www.tsunami.org/

Tsunami: The Great Wave - Discusses what tsunamis are, what causes them, and how warning systems can help save lives.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/brochures/tsunami.htm

Surviving A Tsunami—Lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan - Booklet about how to survive a tsunami that includes stories of people who survived tsunamis in Chile, Hawaii, and Japan.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/c1187/

Tsunami Word Search Game - Find the words in the puzzle.
http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/wordsearch.html

Tsunami in Indian Ocean - Diagrams showing travel time in hours plus an animation of the earthquake and generated tsunami. From the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. [English and Japanese]
http://staff.aist.go.jp/kenji.satake/Sumatra-E.html

Savage Earth: Waves of Destruction - Highlights include animated illustrations, articles, an "Ask the Experts" section, photographs, and video downloads.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/tsunami/index.html

Savage Seas - The Crow's Nest - Discover the power of waves and how fast they can travel. Includes animations and videos clips.
http://www.thirteen.org/savageseas/neptune-main.html

Tsunami WebQuest 2004 - Provides detailed instructions and resources for a student team project on the causes and consequences of the Asian tsunamis.
http://educatoral.com/tsunami_webquest.html

Unosat: Satellite Imagery for All - Maps, radar images and photographs from space. Includes before and after views of the Indian Ocean tsunami in December 2004.
http://unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/asp/charter.asp?id=55