● Field Survey on the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

Philip L.-F. Liu led a delegation of American scientists from the National Science Foundation's Tsunami Research Group and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) into the tsunami-ravaged areas of Sri Lanka, Jan. 9-16.[read more News about the survey] (Photo by Bruce Jaffe)

● Survey Data

Field survey locations (red dots on the coasts) and the survey data (maximum tsunami heights in black and blue bars) in comparison with numerical simulation (green dots)

        Click to download the field survey data (67KB in MS Excel format, maintained by Professor Patrick J. Lynett in TAMU).

● Photos

        Selected photos by Prof. Philip L.-F. Liu:

Location

Kinniya

Kinniya

Kinniya

Mutur

Mutur

Mutur

Mutur

Kalmunai

Kalmunai

Kalmunai

 

        Click to View more photos by Philip L.-F. Liu

        Click to View more Photo by Tom Paulson

        ► Click to View more photos by Patrick J. Lynett

● Videos

        An overview of the coast line (17 MB)
        Interviewed with local residents -1 (5 MB) (by Patrick Lynett, TAMU)
        Interviewed with local residents -2 (10MB) (by Patrick Lynett, TAMU)
        Interviewed with local residents -3 (1.5 MB)      

 

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