{"683598":{"#nid":"683598","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"As powerful 8.8 earthquake triggers Pacific-wide tsunami alert, Georgia scientists are tracking the seismic and tidal waves","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia\u2019s Kamchatka Peninsula late Monday, triggering a tsunami that surged across the Pacific Ocean. Tsunami alerts stretched from Japan to South America, including portions of coastal Alaska and the West Coast, as well as Hawaii.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is certainly one of the biggest earthquakes we\u2019ve seen recently,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/newman-andrew\u0022\u003EAndrew Newman\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech. \u201cIt\u2019s smaller than the 2011 Japan quake, but it\u0027s almost the exact same size as the Chile earthquake in 2010. It created a lot of local damage there as well as a large tsunami.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe quake occurred along a megathrust fault, which is a type of subduction zone where one tectonic plate dives beneath another. These faults, common around the Pacific \u201cRing of Fire,\u201d are responsible for the largest earthquakes in recorded history. They\u0027re also responsible for generating tsunami waves.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In these megathrust faults, one dives beneath another. It\u0027s actually that upper plate when it pops up,\u0022 Newnan said. \u0022It creates really large waves. That part that pops up may pop up as much as 10 to 15 or 20 feet, depending on how big the earthquake is. That\u0027s going to lift the entire water column around it...and then that wave just kind of propagates away.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia\u2019s Kamchatka Peninsula late Monday, triggering a tsunami that surged across the Pacific Ocean. Tsunami alerts stretched from Japan to South America, including portions of coastal Alaska and the West Coast, as well as Hawaii.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis is certainly one of the biggest earthquakes we\u2019ve seen recently,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/newman-andrew\u0022\u003EAndrew Newman\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech. \u201cIt\u2019s smaller than the 2011 Japan quake, but it\u0027s almost the exact same size as the Chile earthquake in 2010. It created a lot of local damage there as well as a large tsunami.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe quake occurred along a megathrust fault, which is a type of subduction zone where one tectonic plate dives beneath another. These faults, common around the Pacific \u201cRing of Fire,\u201d are responsible for the largest earthquakes in recorded history. They\u0027re also responsible for generating tsunami waves.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In these megathrust faults, one dives beneath another. It\u0027s actually that upper plate when it pops up,\u0022 Newnan said. \u0022It creates really large waves. That part that pops up may pop up as much as 10 to 15 or 20 feet, depending on how big the earthquake is. That\u0027s going to lift the entire water column around it...and then that wave just kind of propagates away.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2025-08-06 17:25:29","changed_gmt":"2025-08-07 17:11:22","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"11Alive News","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/weather\/weather-impact\/science-behind-earthquakes-and-tsunamis\/85-57bbe9ec-1d97-436d-abda-ceb987be748c","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"175593","name":"School  of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"5770","name":"Earthquake"},{"id":"347","name":"tsunami"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}