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The Tsunami Research Center's staff have been quoted many times in the news.Professors Costas Synolakis and Jose Borrero have played leading roles
in investigation of and comment on many tsunami disasters. Below is a
list of links to websites and PDF documents with stories from newspapers and
magazines:
Preparing for tsunamis in California - Popular Science Online (4/30/2009)
Signs around LA beaches warn of tsunami threat - Seattle Times (4/12/2009)
Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System to Become Operational in 2006 - National Defense Magazine(11/2005)
The Megatsunami of
December 26,2004 (Costas Synolakis, Emile Okal,
and Eddie Bernard) - The Bridge (Summer 2005)
Little is known about damage giant wave could cause - Mercury News (07/27/2005)
USC Tsunami Researchers featured in Science
The details of the December 26th tsunami have been published in a pair of articles appearing in the journal Science. Professor Synolakis was co-authored on a report which detailed the tsunami effects in Sri Lanka while Professor Borrero reported on the tsunami effects in Banda Aceh. http://www.sciencemag.org/ (June 9, 2005)
Tsunami experts say better safe than sorry - Mercury News (06/15/2005)
Model shows Islands Muted Tsunami after Latest Indonesian Quake - Science Magazine (04/15/2005)
Could it Happen Here? - Civil Engineering (04/2005)
Study figures local tsunami cost - Daily Breeze (04/01/2005)
Southern California tsunami could cause $42 billion damage - Eurekalert (03/31/2005)
Faster response to 2nd quake, but serious flaws exposed - SeattleTimes.com (free registration required) (03/29/2005)
Scientists predicted a new tremblor in that region of the sea floor - SignOnSanDiego.com (03/29/2005)
Experts' Fear of Big Quake Appear to Be Borne Out - New York Times (03/29/2005)
India must cooperate on tsunami warning system - Nature (03/03/2005)
Spurensuche nach dem Tsunami - Neue Zürich Zeitung (02/02/2005)
Nuke Policy Leads India to Build Own Tsunami Detection Network - Science (01/28/2005)
On the trail of destruction - Nature (01/27/2005)
Sea walls not a solution to tsunami: experts - New Kerala (01/23/2005)
Fears gloom over dams - Sri Lanka Daily News (01/17/2005)
Secrets of tsunamis not easliy revealed - Seattle Post - Intelligencer (01/17/2005)
Dream-Team mit Makel - Der Spiegel (01/17/2005)
Lanka gets a briefing on tsunami - Sri Lanka Daily News (01/17/2005)
The Man Who Saved His Village - Sunday Observer, Sri Lanka (01/16/2005)
Scientists Release Tsunami Effect Data - Associated Press (Charlotte News-Observer) (01/15/2005)
Self Centred West's Narrow Focus Puts Lives at Risk - Times (of London) Higher Education Supplement (THES), (01/14/2005)
Middle East 'should have tsunami warning system' - Gulf News, Dubai (01/13/2005)
Professors Study Natural Disaster Probablilities - Daily Trojan (01/12/2005)
Tsunami Simulation an Inexact Science - San Francisco Chronicle (01/10/2005)
Cómo salvarse de un tsunami - El País (01/09/2005) (includes translation)
1812 California Tsunami Carried a Ship Inland - Los Angeles Times (01/09/2005)
In Wake of Disaster, ScientistsSeek Out Clues to Prevention - www.ScienceMag.org (01/07/2005)
KCET Life & Times Transcript (01/05/2005)
In Past Tsunamis, Tantalizing Clues to Future Ones - New York Times (01/04/2005)
O.C.'s Tsunami Threat - Orange County Register (12/31/2004)
Why There Was No Warning - The Wall Street Journal (12/29/2004)
Disaster Prompts Calls for Indian Ocean Warning System - Los Angeles Times (12/29/2004)
La tragédie de l'océan Indien aurait-elle pu être évitée? by Jose Borrero - La Tribune, Sherbrooke, Que. (12/29/2004) (includes translation)
Disagreement among scientists on tsunamis in Greece - Apogeymatini - 12/28/2004 (in Greek)
Tsunamis' Toll Might Have Been Lessened - Washington Post (12/27/2004)
Rupture hundreds of miles in length started undersea wave - The Seattle Times (12/27/2004)
India not part of Global Warning System - Hindustan Times (12/27/2004)
Strong Quake Could Trigger A Tsunami In Southern California, USC Researchers Report - ScienceDaily.com - (9/28/2004)
Tanea - Hellas Press (01/24/2004)
Tsunami Warning Posted, but Soon Lifted - Los Angeles Times (09/26/2003)
Tsunami Researcher Saves Life at the Beach - USC Engineer (09/2003)
The next big wave - The Economist (08/14/2003)
Researchers Warn of Tsunami Danger - Los Angeles Times (05/03/2003)
Team in South Pacific Studies Source of Historic Tsunami - www.nsf.gov - (08/06/2002)
Experts Find Clues to Cause of Deadly Pacific Tsunami - New York Times (04/23/2002)
Researchers Target Deadly Tsunamis - Science Magazine (08/17/2001)
Tsunami Threat Mapped along Southern California Coast - Civil Engineering News (2001)
Threat of Giant Waves? - ABCNEWS.com (2001)
Threat of killer waves Recent scientific studies show the power of tsunamis - SFGate.com (09/10/2001)
Undersea Landslides Pose Tsunami Threat - San Jose Mercury News (12/19/2000)
Underwater Landslides Threaten California Coast - SFGate (12/19/2000)
Scientists travel across the Pacific to study the 1946 tsunami... - Honolulu Star (09/23/2000)
Undersea slides can trigger Tsunamis - Honolulu Star (07/18/2000)
SCIENCE FILE / An exploration of issues and trends affecting science,
medicine and the environment - Los Angeles Times (04/27/2000)
Why the New Guinea tsunami carries bad news for North America - Science News Online (10/03/1998)
The Left Coast Is Toast--Very Wet Toast - Los Angeles Times (09/27/1998)
Scientists Say Undersea Landslide Caused Tsunami - Los Angeles Times (08/31/1998)
Tsunamis threaten world's coastlines - CNN.com (08/25/1998)
Short Warning Time Adds to Tsunami Peril - Los Angeles Times (07/20/1998)
Neither Riots Nor Fires Nor Mudslides Nor Earthquakes Nor O.J. Simpson... - The San Francisco Examiner (06/24/1994)
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