Tsunami Animation - Shoaling

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Created 13/01/2025

Updated 13/01/2025

As the tsunami leaves the deep water of the open ocean and approaches the shallower waters near the coast, it slows down and may grow in height depending on the shape of the seafloor. A tsunami that is unnoticeable by ships at sea may grow to be several metres or more in height near the coast. Our example tsunami is now 1.5 metres high with a wavelength of 100 kilometres and is moving at about 400 kilometres an hour.

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Title Tsunami Animation - Shoaling
Language eng
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Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/07b75d06-e604-47e0-81e3-64ef27618365
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Geoscience Australia
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage http://www.ga.gov.au/place-names/PlaceDetails.jsp?submit1=GA1
Data Portal data.gov.au