Tsunami magnitude difficult to predict
Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 22:14
in Mathematics & Economics
Scientists can usually pinpoint the arrival time of an earthquake-generated wave, such as the one caused by the temblor off Chile, but not its size. So they err on the side of caution. Scientists can do a very good job of tracking the progression of a tsunami and predicting when it will arrive, but they have much more difficulty predicting how big it...