“The initial wave ... crest to another. Usually, waves made by the wind only have a wavelength of 300ft or so and measure less than 10ft tall. A tsunami that strikes the deepest portions of the ...

Have you ever thought about what would happen if all life in the ocean disappeared? A recent study explores this extreme scenario to understand how ocean biology shapes the past, present ...

"Tides are very long-period waves that move through the ocean ... crest, of the wave reaches a particular location, high tide occurs; low tide corresponds to the lowest part of the wave, or its ...

Thirty minutes after the shaking had subsided, the first wave, travelling eastwards ... some waves set off travelling with the crest first, others travelling trough first. The damage across the Indian ...

The tall, stony coastlines of the northeast Pacific Ocean are much quieter than they were just a decade ago. Following a punishing marine heat wave in the region, the raucous seabird colonies that ...

Like a surfer on an ocean wave, electrons collect energy as they travel along the crest of this plasma wave. Completing a second beamline at BELLA in 2022 allowed the use of a dual-laser system ...

Dr Ian Chandler is part of a HR Wallingford team studying tsunamis Twenty years on from the Boxing Day Indian Ocean tsunami ... hour for that same trough and crest of a wave to come past you ...

An extreme heat wave off California’s coast seemed like an anomaly 10 years ago. But as the ocean warms, the catastrophe may be a glimpse of the future. Rodeo Beach, Calif., one of the beaches ...

Tens of millions of years ago, South America and Africa were part of the same land mass, an ancient supercontinent called Gondwana. At some point, the two continents we now know started to pull ...

It lies on the Ring of Fire, an area of intense seismic and volcanic activity on both sides of the Pacific Ocean ... s the looming threat of the Nankai Trough megathrust earthquake – the ...

The distance between crests is called the wavelength, and the amplitude of a wave—its strength, effectively—is the difference in height between the trough and a crest. In a sound wave ...