USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program > Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center > Tsunami and Earthquake Research at the USGS
On our Tsunami and Earthquake Research web site, you will find general information on how local tsunamis are generated by earthquakes as well as animations, virtual reality models of tsunamis, and summaries of past research studies.
Learn more about tsunamis in the United States.
Learn more about our active research projects:
U.S. West Coast and Alaska Marine Geohazards
Tsunami Hazards, Modeling, and the Sedimentary Record
Preliminary simulation of the tsunami from the March 11, 2011 M=9.0 subduction zone earthquake
Mentawai Islands, Indonesia: October 25, 2010
Preliminary simulation of the tsunami from the October 25, 2010 M=7.7 subduction zone earthquake
Bío Bío, Chile: February 27, 2010
Preliminary simulations of the tsunami from the February 27, 2010 M=8.8 subduction zone earthquake
Samoa Islands: September 29, 2009
Preliminary analysis of the tsunami from the September 29, 2009 M=8.1 Samoa Islands subduction zone earthquake, southwest Pacific Ocean
Sumatra-Andaman: December 26, 2004
Preliminary analysis of the tsunami from the December 26, 2004 Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone earthquake, Southwest Pacific Ocean; includes comparison with the March 28, 2005 tsunami and earthquake
Tsunamis in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
How do various parameters that describe an earthquake influence the resulting local tsunami?
The 1952 and 2003 Tokachi-Oki Earthquakes and Tsunamis
Comparison of the September 25, 2003 M=8.3 and the 1952 M=8.1 Tokachi-Oki earthquakes, near Hokkaido, Japan
50-Year-Old Mystery Solved: Seafloor Mapping Reveals Cause of 1964 Tsunami that Destroyed Alaskan Village
A submarine landslide source for the devastating 1964 Chenega tsunami, southern Alaska - Earth and Planetary Science Letters 438
Non-linear resonant coupling of tsunami edge waves using stochastic earthquake source models - Geophysical Journal International 204
Dynamic models of an earthquake and tsunami offshore Ventura, California - Geophysical Research Letters 42
Great (≥Mw8.0) megathrust earthquakes and the subduction of excess sediment and bathymetrically smooth seafloor - Geosphere 11
Introduction to “Global Tsunami Science: Past and Future, Volume I” - Pure and Applied Geophysics 173
Reconstruction of Far-Field Tsunami Amplitude Distributions from Earthquake Sources - Pure and Applied Geophysics 173
Source Characterization and Tsunami Modeling of Submarine Landslides Along the Yucatán Shelf/Campeche Escarpment, Southern Gulf of Mexico - Pure and Applied Geophysics 173
