Boffins from NASA and Ohio State University have discovered that the tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011 was a so-called ‘merging tsunami’. Merging tsunami data from two satellites. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Ohio State University (click to enlarge) The idea of a merging tsunami, where two or more wave fronts join to form a …

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Tuesday 6th December 2011 14:01 GMT NikT

Dodgy stats?

Is it really a 1 in 10 million chance that we saw this? I'd like to see the derivation of that number.

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1. Wednesday 7th December 2011 11:16 GMT Marvin the Martian
  
  Easy-peasy.
  
  These one-in-a-million chance thingies keep happening about one time in ten; million is the new ten.
  
  It's not like they've observed 5million tsunami waves to get a 50% chance of recording one, as would be with the old, big, millions.
  
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Tuesday 6th December 2011 16:06 GMT Anonymous Coward

Double...

Does this mean it is more or less awesome than a double rainbow?

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1. Wednesday 7th December 2011 12:10 GMT Evil Auditor
  
  Re awesome
  
  Well, that really depends on whether you are 'merkin or British.
  
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Tuesday 6th December 2011 16:08 GMT Not_The_Droids

Oh wow...

Double tsunami, man. Double tsunami, look at that. Wow, man. The colors are so beautiful...

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Wednesday 7th December 2011 13:54 GMT Brian Miller 1

Well, maybe nukes have some uses then...

Perhaps changing the undersea topology would act to prevent this type of tsunami being able to be come about.

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Wednesday 7th December 2011 13:54 GMT fatchap

The satellites just happened to be there? Not at all caused as part of an experiment going disastrously wrong then.

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Sunday 11th December 2011 21:24 GMT Dennis Wilson

Outrageous

Japan was hit by a tsumani in the early 1900's, it flattened a very, very large area. To build a nucleur power station knowing that was pure folly, it was the most stupid thing to do. This was predictable, and they should be held to account for being so stupid

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