UCL Engineering - Tsunami defence

The large waves created by earthquakes under the sea floor destroy thousands of lives and livelihoods each year, but we know very little about how these massive walls of water behave. Dr Tiziana Rosetto (UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering) and colleagues studying fluid dynamics have created a completely new way of generating models of these waves. The information they gain allows them to predict the damage exacted by tsunami on buildings and infrastructure, helping communities worldwide defend against these potential disasters.

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Study Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management MSc at UCL. Visit www.ucl.ac.uk/civil-environmental-geomatic-engineering/eedm-msc for further information.

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