Shown is a department store at the Northridge Fashion Center that collapsed after the 1994 Northridge quake. Scientists used ocean waves to create a “virtual earthquake” to simulate the ground ...

An international research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has, for the first time, succeeded in visualizing and ...

A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.

The speed of these waves is influenced by the depth of the ocean: in deeper water, they can travel at speeds of up to 500 miles per hour. Approximately 80% of tsunamis are caused by earthquakes.

Regular waves are pretty straightforward – wind blows, water moves, surfers have fun. Square waves , however, are what happens when nature decides to get complicated.

As depth increases, the motion of water in waves drops rapidly, so the primary microseism process tends to happen in ocean water depths that are less than about 1,000 feet (300 meters). The primary ...

Ocean waves, especially in ... you get extremely high waves,” Braverman said. The ocean moves floats up and down, but it also jostles them side to side, and the salt water corrodes them.

These two factors, temperature and salinity, are the main driving forces behind Earth’s ocean conveyor belt, which is a huge water circulation system in the deep ocean that moves water around ...

Waves are a form of energy which in the case of ocean waves, lifts water up as it moves along. Behind the wave it falls and rises again a few times which is why you get more than one ripple from a ...

I'm standing on a beach and I see, a few hundred yards out, a mound of water heading right at me. It's not a wave, not yet, but a swollen patch of ocean, like the top of a moving beach ball, what ...

Converting the power of water into energy is nothing new. Using ocean waves is. The power of the ocean could soon be used to power homes in the U.S. as scientists prepare to test an untapped form ...

The effect is a visual experience that looks like waves rolling on the ocean. It even captures the imagine of the sun glinting on the water. 3-D software was used to design the look of the ocean.