print email comment close The Mathematics of Tsunamis URL: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2005-01-14/tsunamis/ Description: "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. Author: Weisstein, Eric; Trott, Michael Publisher: Wolfram Research, Inc. Library of Congress Subject Headings: Tsunamis Tsunamis -- Mathematical models LII Database Information: Record 16803 created by Sybil Finemel on 01/30/2005 Last modification on 02/02/2005 Published: 01/30/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/16803