Tsunami

From GeoMod

websites:

http://www.digitalglobe.com/tsunami_gallery.html Sat images

http://waveofdestruction.org/ images and accounts

http://www.healthpolitics.com/archives.asp?previous=katrina

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/sumatra20041226.html#sld

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/indo20041226/maldives_eyewitness.htm (this account indicates water was gone by morning Dec 27)

http://frist.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=1835&Month=2&Year=2005 (large pools of stagnant water (jan 7))

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/indonesia/aceh-andaman-tsunami_comp05.htm shows pooling of water 2 days after tsunami

http://www.iah.org/News/2005/050.html report about Sumatra tsunami by the author of SUTRA

references:

contacts:

atwater@u.washington.edu

hig314@u.washington.edu Indicated to me that in general water will pool for days near coastline but that the limit for flowing water is minutes to hours.(part of the USGS party to indonesia following the tsunami)