Twenty years ago, when strangers would ask Hermann Fritz about his job and he told them he was a tsunami expert, he got plenty of quizzical looks in response.
"The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake changed everything," said Fritz, a young researcher whose Ph.D. was barely two years old at the time, recalling the powerful undersea megathrust off the Indonesian coast that caused theto rise on Boxing Day. It triggered a massive, deadly tsunami with 100-foot waves that killed nearly 230,000 people in 14 countries, the last of them 5,000 miles from the earthquake epicenter.
in these natural disasters, but also on their mitigation and coastal protection. That's where his latest research, published in the journalHermann Fritz makes final preparations before the volcanic tsunami generator is installed in the wave basin at the Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at Oregon State. Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology
," Liu said."That's what motivated this project—the limited scientific understanding and field data of tsunami generation mechanisms."The tsunami generation process is the transfer of mechanical and thermal energy from volcanic activities into the surrounding body of water. To mimic this behavior for their observation, the researchers built a pneumatic volcanic tsunami generator . Tsunami waves are generated by sending a vertical column of water up through the water surface.
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