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Converting starting wave to known max wave height

in our university project, we are developing a tsunami simulation using the Shallow Water Equations. For our project, we have decided to allow users to enter an epicentre and the magnitude of an ...
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Better to stay in the open or in the water during an earthquake?

I tried looking around on google but couldn't really find any good information. For arguments sake, say I am in a field with a river intersecting it. If an earthquake occurs and I am near the ...
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Question about the difference between a tsunami caused by a meteorite and one caused by an under water earthquake

Picture the situation where a meteorite falls somewhere on one of our oceans and gives off all its kinetic energy to the water (let's ignore the thermal energies involved like, for example, the heat ...
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