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The Mathematics of Tsunamis
"The recent tragic events following the December 2004 magnitude 9.0 earthquake in the Indian Ocean have reminded us of the need for scientific understanding and modeling of complicated physical phenomena in order to prevent unnecessary loss of life from natural disasters." This document looks at calculations related to tsunami physics and provides a visualization of a tsunami. Includes links to related concepts. From MathWorld.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2005-01-14/tsunamis/
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