Tsunami Simulator

Oregon State Unversity developed a tsunami simulator to demostrate the devastation and understand physics behind this awsome feat of Mother Nature. On November 15, 2004 as part of a live, simulcast grand opening event of a new national earthquake engineering research network that links 15 large-scale research facilities across the continent, researchers at Oregon State University’s Tsunami Wave Basin unleashed a tidal wave on a scale model of a U.S. city on the Pacific coast. Other situations such as a fishing barge in a tidal wave "storm" testing different devices to allow the ship to survive this disaster. I have been there myself. The college also has another simulator next door which tests erosion of beaches and other landforms. The purpose of the experiment was to test several improvements in order to solve "certain" difficulties in life.