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Geotimes November 2006 Laura S. L. Kong	Guarding Against Tsunamis: What Does It Mean To Be Ready? Despite the implementation of new tsunami warning systems, much work is ahead before the coastal communities of the world can be truly prepared.
AskMen.com Bernie Alexander	Tsunamis: Waves Of Destruction Understanding the tsunami: definition, origins, history, warning signs, etc.
Geotimes July 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Quake Triggers Deadly Tsunami Off Java A major undersea earthquake occurred south of Indonesia, triggering a local tsunami that hit the island of Java. At least 80 people are dead after a 6-foot-high wave crashed ashore on the island's southern coast.
Geotimes July 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Sri Lankan Water Post-Tsunami According to a new study, tens of thousands of wells in Sri Lanka's coastal areas are still contaminated with seawater and are unusable, despite last winter's heavy monsoon rains -- and it may be several more monsoon seasons before the coastal aquifer can supply potable water again.
BusinessWeek January 10, 2005 Rowley & Einhorn	The Tsunami's Tragic Toll The vast catastrophe will bring painful economic costs in Asia, too. Governments across the region, already strapped for cash, now face the expense of relief and reconstruction.
National Defense November 2005 Grace Jean	Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System to Become Operational in 2006 UNESCO officials set forth a plan calling for the establishment of seven regional tsunami advisory centers in the Indian Ocean basin, the installation and upgrading of coastal sea-level gauges, seismic instruments and stations, and the deployment of deep underwater sensors.
Geotimes February 2004 Naomi Lubick	Triggering Tsunamis A controversy over whether an earthquake or an underwater landslide generated the 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami rekindled interest in such events; it also drew geologists into a field that had been dominated by modelers and seismologists.
IEEE Spectrum March 2005 Philip E. Ross	Waiting and Waiting For the Next Killer Wave A tsunami alarm for the Indian Ocean may be worth the cost, but can it retain public support over the long haul?
InternetNews December 27, 2004 Erin Joyce	Spreading The Word of Tsunami Relief Online sites and bloggers spread fast relief information after the worst earthquake in 40 years devastates Southeast Asia.
Geotimes February 2005 Naomi Lubick	Tsunami Devastates Asia Geoscientists won't know exactly what happened in the Indian Ocean event until they can get into the field.
Geotimes December 2006 Margaret Putney	Tsunami Risk Still High in Sumatra Another major earthquake and tsunami will strike the western coast of Sumatra sometime in the next few decades, according to researchers studying the region's history. And the predicted tsunami has a significant chance of hitting densely populated areas, the team says.
Geotimes March 2005 Susan E. Hough	Earthquakes: Predicting the Unpredictable? Seismologists are quite good at identifying where large earthquakes are likely to occur on time scales of several decades to centuries, but still unable to identify regions where earthquakes will happen tomorrow, next week, or even within the next few years.
Searcher May 2005 Miguel Ramos	Tsunami Blogs Respond to Disaster Evolving from personal, journal-style entries, blogs have addressed politics, war reportage, and, now, humanitarian aid efforts. Here is a description of blogs about the December 2004 tsunami that are focused on aid and information.
Geotimes November 2006 Megan Sever	Earthquakes, Tsunamis Strike Japan A magnitude-8.3 earthquake struck off the Kuril Islands between Japan and Russia, followed by a series of strong aftershocks, at least four of which were above magnitude 6.0, according to the USGS.
National Defense November 2005 Grace Jean	U.S. Expanding Tsunami Alert Network The government has pledged $37.5 million over the next two years for the wave monitoring and detection project, which includes the production and deployment of 31 new DART (Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis) buoys.
Wired February 2005 Sir Arthur C. Clarke	Letter from Sri Lanka The author talks about the tsunami's aftermath and the roles of science fiction and technology in predicting future disasters.
Geotimes May 2005 David Applegate	Lessons From Sumatra In the months following the December 26, 2004 earthquake and tsunami U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists and their colleagues around the world have been working hard to learn from the tragedy so that such loss of life does not happen again.
Geotimes November 2007 Jim Gibeaut	Coastal Development: The Galveston Case, Part II Whatever the choice, it is clear that we need to build into our policies a dynamic that matches the changing conditions along our coast, and we need to make sure the public is aware of the situation.
Scientific American March 2005 Madhusree Mukerjee	The Scarred Earth Tsunami-spawning quake leaves geophysical changes.
Geotimes December 2006 Carolyn Gramling	Natural Hazards: Damage Control Watching for the Waves: Q&A with David Green, NOAA's Tsunami Program manager, on the newest technologies, systems and collaborations that scientists are devising to send swifter warnings.
Geotimes December 2004 Megan Sever	Devastation in the Indian Ocean A magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, on Sunday morning, followed by dozens of powerful aftershocks and large tsunamis that reached as far as the east coast of Africa, some 4,800 kilometers away.
Geotimes June 2005 Naomi Lubick	California Earthquake Spawns Tsunami Worry The epicenter of a magnitude-7.2 earthquake that struck off northern California set off a tsunami warning for the entire West Coast, leading to an evacuation from Crescent City, Calif.
Scientific American March 2005	Relief Is Not Enough Tsunami relief does not replace development. The U.S. and other industrial nations need to be more forthcoming with aid outside of calamitous times.
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick	Magnitude-8.7 Earthquake Hits Sumatra, Small Tsunami Wave Detected An earthquake that was quite close the site of December's catastrophic quake has prompted warning bulletins from NOAA's Pacific Tsunami Warning system suggesting the evacuation of coastlines within 1,000 kilometers of the epicenter.
Geotimes November 2005 Naomi Lubick	Large Quake, Small Tsunami for Japan A large earthquake several hundred kilometers offshore Japan triggered a tsunami warning and a subsequent small tsunami. Three or four large events have occurred on this subduction fault over the past several centuries, as the Pacific plate slowly presses westward under Japan.
Geotimes December 2005 David Applegate	A Year of Living Dangerously Recent destructive events are reminders of our society's growing vulnerability to natural disasters as more people move into harm's way. Scientists seeking to understand the underlying geologic systems have an obligation to learn more.
Wired May 2004 Carl Hoffman	Endless Summer (on Demand) Kerry Black is bringing world-class waves to the malls of America. Grab your board - surf's up 6 a.m. to midnight, 365 days a year.
Bio-IT World February 11, 2005 Kevin Davies	Tsunami Science The task of retrieving and identifying bodies in Southeast Asia enters a new phase. At the Thailand Tsunami Victim Identification Center, officials have been evaluating genetic database systems for comparing ante-mortem and post-mortem DNA samples.
Fast Company March 2005 Alec Appelbaum	Shore Leader: Sriram Ayer December's tsunami devastated villages across Asia. One man looks to improve Beach-side village conditions regardless.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Barry E. DiGregorio	Tsunami Surveillance By Satellites Could a system relying on signaling between GPS satellites and ground stations provide prompter warnings? A group of scientists say they have developed a concept for such a system and that it could detect deadly tsunamis in as little as 15 minutes.
Geotimes February 2006 Robert S. Young	The High Cost of Subsidized Coastal Development Coastal geologists, engineers and managers can objectively determine where the most vulnerable shorelines are. And in the interest of fairness, American taxpayers must insist that the communities that build there assume responsibility for themselves.
TIME Asia February 7, 2011 Krista Mahr	Testing the Waters The Great Barrier Reef is one of the world's natural wonders, covering an area larger than Italy and drawing nearly 2 million tourists every year to boat, swim, snorkel and dive amid its elaborate flora and fauna. It's also one of the planet's most fragile ecosystems
Popular Mechanics April 2010	How a Hurricane Wavemaker Works (With Video!) To engineer better buildings, researchers at Oregon State University's Wave Research Laboratory bust walls with waves generated by this artificial tsunami machine.
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Chris Dixon	Re-engineering America's Beaches, 1 Tax Dollar at a Time Pumping sediment onto the nation's beaches is an expensive fix for the erosion caused by coastal development and often a bad fix at that.
Fast Company April 2005 Todd Shapera	On the Waterfront An IT analyst pursues a different calling after the tsunami hits his native Sri Lanka. Now he's building houses for tsunami victims.
Geotimes August 2006 Megan Sever	Faster Tsunami Warnings with GPS Time is of the essence when a giant earthquake strikes, especially underwater. Now, a team of researchers says that they have found a new way -- using GPS -- to more quickly determine if the quake is large enough to produce an ocean-wide tsunami.
Geotimes December 2003 Naomi Lubick	Unknown Future for Coral Reefs Coral reefs are in danger and their recovery, when compared to historic coral reefs, is not assured. Though action is necessary to preserve reefs today, researchers do not know enough about how reefs function to guarantee that conservation and remediation will work.
InternetNews January 7, 2005 Tim Gray	Tsunami Donations Skyrocket Online The tsunami that killed more than 150,000 people and pulverized the coastlines of nearly a dozen nations has also brought out unprecedented use of the Internet.
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005	How India Is Springing Into Action In Tamil Nadu, the relief effort is intense, fast-moving, and surprisingly efficient.
IDB America April 2008 Dan Drosdoff	Barbados Priority: Protecting the Coastline Improvements and investments have succeeded in stabilizing the Barbados coastline, but the rehabilitation and shoreline protection process is continuous, and the possibilities of setbacks are a constant menace.
BusinessWeek January 24, 2005 Assif Shameen	Indonesia: The Right Leader In A Time Of Trial? Indonesia's Soesilo Bambang Yudhoyono is handling the tsunami crisis skillfully, and he's pushing hard for major reforms.
Geotimes August 2004 Jay Chapman	Roving Oregon's Dunes Oregon Dunes is the largest coastal dune system in North America and visitors often see dune-buggies, rather than rovers, wandering the landscape that looks as alien as the scenes from Mars.
Popular Mechanics October 2006 Jim Gorman Diagrams	Future Shocks Think mother nature has dealt us her worst? Think again. Here are five natural disasters poised to strike the United States, and why they will be like nothing we have ever seen... How to ride out an emergency...
Geotimes March 2005 Laura Stafford	Sumatra Seismic Risk Recent research indicates that Indonesia, as well as other regions like the Caribbean, could experience more earthquake and tsunami activity in the near future.
Foundation News & Commentary Mar/Apr 2005 Marc Ross Manashil	Don't Forget the World's Daily Disasters Global tragedy did not begin or end with the 2004 tsunami. Seize a chance to commit to international giving.
Geotimes July 2004 Carolyn Gramling	Under-Reef Pipelines Get Green Light Staghorn coral live in seagrass in the Florida Keys Marine National Sanctuary. Two companies are planning to construct underwater pipelines carrying natural gas through a stretch of coral reef north of the sanctuary and down to the Bahamas.
Geotimes January 2007 Lisa Rossbacher	Words, Words, Words Geologists use lots of specialized words, and, befitting a science that covers the entire planet, the words come from all over the globe as well.
BusinessWeek April 7, 2011 Chris Cooper	Tsunami Wreckage and the Threat to Shipping Houses and other debris washed out to sea by the tsunami are clogging shipping lanes off Japan.
Popular Mechanics March 25, 2010 Erin McCarthy	Lost's Storm Wave Is No Tsunami; Couldn't Carry a Ship Inland The most recent episode of Lost showed us how the Black Rock was deposited inland by a massive storm wave after destroying the island's famous four-toed statue. But could a wooden ship really do that much damage?
Scientific American January 2009 Yam & Choi	Whatever Happened to the Risk for Another Indian Ocean Tsunami? No relief from Tsunami threat... Recovering from rabies... Future bioterror risks... The genetic tracking of religious persecution...