Epicenter Distance Map; Indian Ocean Tsunamigenic Areas; Hypothetical Indian Ocean Tsunami Animation by Las Alamos National Laboratory

Distance from epicenters

Download the high resolution map of the distances of various South Indian/Sri Lankan towns from the epicenters of the Dec 26th and March 28th eartquakes.



Tsunamigenic Areas in Indian Ocean


(1) The Andaman sea

(2) Area about 400-500 kilometers SSW of Sri Lanka

(3) The Arabian Sea about 70-100 kilometers south of Pakistan Coast -- off Karachi and Baluchistan


Source: T. S. Murty , A. Bapat , “Tsunamis on the coastlines of India”, Science of Tsunami Hazards, Vol 17, No.3 (1999), p-167 to 172


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Animation of a hypothetical tsunami generated by a meteor falling in the Indian Ocean

This is a hypothetical animation of a tsunami generated by a meteor falling in the Indian Ocean 4000 km south of Cape Comorin. The cavity was 38 km wide and 4000 meters deep.

Note in this animation: The tsunami wave reaches Cape Comorin at 4 hours and embraces the southwest and the southeast coast of India and the coast of Sri Lanka, there after.

This animation can be downloaded from:
http://t14web.lanl.gov/Staff/clm/tsunami.mve/tsunami.htm . The file name is: INDIA.zip

This site contains numerous animations of tsunamis (as of June, 2001) performed so far using using the SWAN code described in the monograph "Numerical Modeling of Water Waves," by Dr. Charles L. Mader, published in 1988 by University of California Press. The site also says that, ‘A few calculations were performed using the full Navier-Stokes ZUNI or SOLA codes’.

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