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credits: Google Earth copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Satellite image of an ice shelf in Antarctica and the nearby seafloor.	credits: Google Earth copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Satellite image of the Columbia River.	credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: A diagram of how tsunamis might resonate in a bay if the period of the bay matches the period of the tsunami.	credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: A map of the bathymetry off the East Coast of the United States
pop a window to view .swf file credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: A shallow continental shelf steering an edge wave.	credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Runup and inundation properties of tsunami waves.	pop a window to view .swf file credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: A shallow water wave with drift	credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: How tsunami wave shelf trapping works
pop a window to view .swf file credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Tsunami waves slowing, shortening, and heightening as they come ashore.	pop a window to view .swf file credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Tsunami waves slowing, shortening, and heightening as they come ashore.	credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Water pressure at 10 m exerting force on the side of a house.	pop a window to view .swf file credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: How friction affects water waves.
pop a window to view .swf file credits: © The COMET Program copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Animation of wave resonance in a simple wave tank.	pop a window to view .swf file credits: NWCG copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: animation showing effect of Coriolis force on wind direction	credits: Google Earth copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Map of Hilo Bay, Hawaii.	credits: NOAA/NGDC Natural Hazards Photo Archive copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: The second wave of the 1946 Alaska tsunami strikes Hilo, Hawaii.
credits: NOAA/NGDC Natural Hazards Photo Archive copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: A tsunami bore, or sheer stepped wave, rolls into the Wailuku River during the 1946 tsunami in Hawaii.	credits: NOAA/NGDC Natural Hazards Photo Archive/University of Hawaii copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Paia, Maui. View of tsunami wave breaking on beach houses.	credits: NOAA/NGDC Natural Hazards Photo Archive/University of California; Berkeley copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: A late tsunami wave in the 1946 tsunami approaching the Hailuku Bridge in Hilo.	credits: NOAA/NGDC Natural Hazards Photo Archive/University of California; Berkeley copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: A tsunami wave surges up the Wailuku River in Hawaii after the 1946 Alaska tsunami.
credits: NOAA/NGDC Natural Hazards Photo Archive/Orville T. Magoon copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Damage to concrete paving, Kaaawa Territorial Highway, Hawaii, after the 1946 Alaska tsunami. The sand under the road has been scoured out, causing the road to collapse.	credits: NOAA/NGDC Natural Hazards Photo Archive copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Hilo, Hawaii. Aerial view showing extent of innudation in area of Hilo Electric Company resulting from first wave as secondary wave approaches the area.	credits: NOAA/NGDC/Henry Helbush copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: A low tsunami wave advances on Laie Point, Oahu, Hawaii.	credits: NOAA/NGDC/Chris Chapman, Schlumberger Cambridge Research copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Dining chairs and other debris float in the floodwaters of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka.
credits: NOAA/NGDC/Chris Chapman, Schlumberger Cambridge Research copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: A beach drained of water before the onset of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami	credits: NOAA/NGDC/Chris Chapman, Schlumberger Cambridge Research copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: A tsunami wave receding from a beach strewn with debris in Sri Lanka during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.	credits: U.S. Navy/NOAA/NGDC copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: The Waiekea area of Hilo, Hawaii 1960. Parking meters flattened by the Chilean tsunami.	credits: NOAA copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Tide gauge in Hawaii during the Samoan Tsunami.
credits: Public Domain pdphoto.org copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Breaking waves	credits: Google Earth copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Satellite image of the west coast of Peru and nearby ocean bathymetry.	pop a window to view .swf file credits: NOAA/PMEL/NOAA Center for Tsunami Research copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Model of the 2006 Kuril Island tsunami waves encountering the Hawaiian islands.	credits: Google Earth copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Satellite image of southeast Japan and the ocean bathymetry nearby.
credits: U.S. Geological Survey/photo by Lori Dengler, Humboldt State University copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Docks torn up by the 2006 tsunami in Crescent City, California.	credits: U.S. Geological Survey copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: The 1999 Izmet Earthquake in Turkey.	credits: U.S. Geological Survey copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: The Turnagain Arm tidal bore in Cook Inlet, Alaska.	credits: Department of Defense photo by Michael L. Bak copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Boats washed ashore near Banda Aceh, Sumatra following the 2004 tsunami
pop a window to view .swf file credits: NOAA/WCATWC/Bill Knight copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: A model simulation demonstrating the concept of shelf trapping.	credits: West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: An edge wave in a wave tank.	credits: West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Tide Gauge in Pago, Pago, Samoa, after 2006 Kuril Island tsunami	credits: Photo by David Rydevik copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: The first wave of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hits Ao Nang, Thailand.
credits: Public Domain copyright terms: COMET Standard Terms of Use description: Waves retreat from Kata Noi Beach, Thailand, after the second wave of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.