NOAA Sea to Sky: Education resource database

This video, originally created for Science on a Sphere, describes events surrounding the 2004 Sumatran tsunami.

The NOAA Center for Tsunami Research, part of the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, website has information on forecasting, research, buoys, and past tsunamis.

On December 26, 2004, what began as an undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean ended as the most deadly tsunami in recorded history, with nearly 240,000 lives lost. See how we've become better prepared since then.

On March 11, 2011 a 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast of Japan generated a tsunami with waves as high as 24 feet. Tens of thousands of lives were lost. The National Police Agency reported damages to hundreds of roads, bridges, and more than 100,000 buildings. Learn what made this tsunami so deadly and destructive.

Learn how an earthquake off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 generated tsunami waves that propagated throughout the Pacific Ocean

Learn about the warning systems that were activated in the U.S. and Japan leading up to the tsunami in March 2011.

TsunamiReady is a voluntary community recognition program that promotes tsunami hazard preparedness as an active collaboration among federal, state/territorial and local emergency management agencies, community leaders and the public. The main goal of the program is to improve public safety before, during and after tsunami emergencies.

People are often unaware of the threat that tsunamis pose along the coast, as well as inland. If you live, work, or play on the coast, be prepared and stay safe! This engaging video provides compelling messages in an easy-to-understand format.

These materials are to be used along with an interactive video. In the video, students can virtually participate in a simulated sea turtle necropsy, or animal dissection, learn how trash can get to the ocean and impact sea turtles, and learn how we can all help stop marine debris. In the program activities guide, parents and teachers will find resources for the interactive video, information on marine debris, additional activities, and lesson extensions.

In this webinar for educators, learn all about how to teach about El Niño. People all over the world experience impacts from El Niño and La Niña, the recurring climate pattern that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean. As this year's La Niña subsides, join us for a science-based exploration of this powerful phenomena. In this presentation, participants will dive deep into Data in the Classroom's El Niño Module to examine decades of observations from Earth observing satellites and take a virtual tour of the new web-based curricular modules and data tools. Data in the Classroom is designed to help teachers and students use real scientific data to explore dynamic Earth processes.