herman fritz he's conducting research in palm tucked away at the back of the bay the town is home to 350000 residents valens of people lost their lives here. accompanied by 2 indonesian colleagues the men fritz drives to the parking lot of the shopping center overlooking the bank he's investigation into the dynamics of the wave relies heavily on videos from mobile phones this is the exact spot that you saw on the feed you so you can see the billboard yes. another wave coming in people running away people running away. and that's the 2nd word i can wait a minute. now we can basically see how high the water is almost in the billboard. the waves reach don't find more than fool meters. to determine the cools of the tsunami and then for its 1st needs to create a computer model of the devastating wave for this he has to determine its height at different points in the city and measure how far it spread inland to try to some detailed survey in years to begin to try to get it to 3 d. scan and the purpose of that is to figure 3 d. space based the lidar stands all the point and we can see how th

authorities to investigate cost us in our lockers at the university of southern california and herman fritz of the georgia institute of technology have arrived to conduct field research. quite impressive to see the devastation. there now 3 weeks after the event. that everything callously writes important as quickly as possible or at least ones to emergencies over because a lot of bulldozing in this area already so a lot of evidence is very lost. the researches will be combing the debris for traces of the wave time is of the essence cleanup operations have already raised valuable evidence and the monsoon rains a jew to start soon. working as a tsunami scientist is very much like being a detective on a crime scene there is a multiple murders have taken place and you really have to piece like in the past this sequence of events. did the tsunami hit 1st in this movie houses collapsed or where they collapsed because of the earthquake or tsunami finished them off what were the people doing why is it that some people die and some people did not. due to researches want to determine how the disaster

herman fritz he's conducting research in part. tucked away at the back of the bank the town is home to 350000 residents thousands of people lost their lives here. accompanied by 2 indonesian colleagues and then fritz drives to the parking lot of the shopping center overlooking the bank he's investigation into the dynamics of the wave relies heavily on videos from mobile phones this is the exact spot that you saw on the feed you there you can see the billboard yet. another way of telling people running away people running away. and that's the 2nd we're going way over there. now you can basically see how high the water is almost on top of the billboard. the waves reach to find more than 4 meters. to determine the kools of the tsunami and then for its 1st needs to create a computer model of the devastating wave for this he has to determine its height at different points in the city and measure how far it spread inland to try to do some detailed survey years to begin to try to get it to 3 d. scan and the purpose of that is to get 3 d.

to determine the kools of the tsunami herman fritz 1st needs to create a computer model of the devastating wave for this he has to determine its height at different points in the city and measure how far it spread in land i tried this in detail surveying years to begin to try to get it to 3 d. stamped and the purpose of that is to figure 3 d. space based the lidar stands all the points and we can see how the wave goes through it so if you measure how high the wave reason every given instance and how fast the wave is moving across the through the houses washing away the houses and across the street. human free to follows the waves traces after flooding the parking lot its whips deep into the sea incidents of the force of the wave can be found in these most located just 100 meters from the shore. that's why we have this grail here and we see this raft of debris inside so we know that the tsunami was at least to this height of this rock and then up here we see the actual primary tsunami lying which is this one right here and we can also see in the window if you look at the blue sky we actuall