to determine the kools of the tsunami hermann 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 inland i tried to some detailed survey years to begin to try to get it to 3 d. stamped and the purpose of that is to figure 3 d. space is the lidar stands all the point 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 that wave is moving across the through the houses washing away the houses and across the street and. hooman fritz follows the waves traces to flooding the parking lot its whips deep into the sea maintenance of the force of the wave can be found in these most located just 100 meters from the shoal. that's why we have this grail here and we see this graph that they bring 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 act

accumulated in the depression of the bank combining to form a powerful wave that swept across the town hermann fritz and cost us in a lock his investigation has come to an end there reconstruction of the bay of palu tsunami will help improve warning systems all over the world or useless things that tsunamis only can areas where you have subduction zones we now know just like what happened here that tsunami is going to pretty much any place where you're going to have an earthquake we are very concerned about this because similar earthquakes place in seattle grace in southern california there could take place in the caribbean a big place in the mediterranean. watch walls of water wash weans want funda water horrible earthquake water frightening sound of the sea and the howling of a great people. these words by the italian poet petrarch described as strange storm over the city of naples in the 14th century. 700 years later vulcanologist mauer a rosy was intrigued by petrov's description grossi has worked on naples emergency plan in case of mt vesuvius erupts most tsunamis are generated by sea quakes an