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- American Red Cross: Tsunami Survival Guide - provides information on what causes tsunamis, as well as disaster plans for dealing with tidal waves.
- Wikipedia: Tsunami - hyperlinked article on the phenomenon of extreme ocean waves that occur after earthquakes or other seismic events impact in or near the sea.
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- British Columbia Tsunami Warning Plan - outlines the procedures to be used in British Columbia to evaluate and disseminate information provided through the Tsunami Warning System.
- Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) - see near real-time sea level data received from buoys deployed in the network of tsunami early warning buoys.
- Fact Sheet: Tsunamis - what to do before, during, and after, from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
- Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami - December 26, 2004@
- International Tsunami Information Center (ITIC) - monitors the activities of the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific. Also provides general information about the waves.
- July 17, 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami - geological studies, animation, and information from the USGS.
- National Geophysical Data Center Tsunami Database - searchable database of information on tsunami events from 49 B.C. to the present in the Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas, and the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.
- National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program - designed to reduce the impact of tsunamis through hazard assessment, warning guidance, and mitigation.
- NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Tsunami Program - seeks to mitigate tsunami hazards to Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska.
- Pacific Tsunami Museum - public education, exhibits, oral histories, and the science of tsunamis in Hawaii and the Pacific Basin.
- Pacific Tsunami Warning Center - provides warnings for teletsunamis to most countries in the Pacific Basin as well as to Hawaii and all other U.S. interests in the Pacific. Located in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.
- Science of Tsunami Hazards - international journal of the Tsunami Society.
- Scientific American: Tsunami! - its awesome fury cannot be diminished, but lessons learned from a rash of disasters, and a new way to track these killer waves, will help save lives.
- Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts - an asteroid striking the ocean could generate tsunami (tidal waves); what is the risk to coastal locations?
- Tsunami Society - promotes the awareness and mitigation of tsunami hazards by sponsorship of workshops, meetings, and symposia, and by the dissemination of knowledge.
- Tsunami! - information about the mechanisms of tsunami generation and propagation, the impact of tsunamis on humankind, and the Tsunami Warning System.
- Tsunami: The Big Wave - information from the NASA Observatorium.
- Tsunamis & Earthquakes - general information on how local tsunamis are generated by earthquakes as well as animations, virtual reality models of tsunamis, and summaries of past research studies, from the USGS.
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Coastal Hydraulics Laboratory - Tsunami Research
- University of Southern California Tsunami Team - conducts research to learn how to mitigate the tsunami hazard in Southern California.
- West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center - includes recent event and visiting information.
- Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Tsunami Warning Center - responsible for providing warning of any tsunami impacting Russia national interests.
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