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Tsunami Warning System

This document describes a tsunami warning system project. It discusses tsunamis, noting that they are very long waves caused by underwater earthquakes or eruptions. It then outlines the objectives of building a system to detect simulated tsunamis using pressure sensors and communicate detections to a surface hub. The current status describes components built so far, including sensors and code, with future plans to test the full system in a tank.

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Tsunami Warning System

This document describes a tsunami warning system project. It discusses tsunamis, noting that they are very long waves caused by underwater earthquakes or eruptions. It then outlines the objectives of building a system to detect simulated tsunamis using pressure sensors and communicate detections to a surface hub. The current status describes components built so far, including sensors and code, with future plans to test the full system in a tank.

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Tsunami Warning System

MIDN 1/C Joseph


Professor Avramov-Zamurovic
ES495
01 DEC 2008
Waves
 Caused by wind, sun, and moon
 Do not move water laterally
 Transfer energy laterally
 Water moves in vertical circles
 Speeds of 5 - 60 mph
 Wavelength of 300 - 600 ft
Tsunami Phenomenon
 A very long wave
 Caused by an underwater earthquake or
underwater volcanic eruption (epicenter)
 This disturbance has an incredible amount of
force
 Energy dissipates away from the epicenter
 Speeds of 500 - 600 mph
 Wavelength of 60 – 300 miles
Tsunami Phenomenon Cont.
 As the wave
approaches land, it
is pushed upward
 Principal region is
Pacific Ocean
 Can occur in the
Atlantic and Indian
Ocean
December 2004 Tsunami
 Earthquake in Indian
Ocean
 Rupture was ~1000
miles long
 Hit India, Thailand,
Malaysia, Indonesia,
many Islands, and
Africa.
 Killed 200,000+ people
 Displaced 1.6 million
people
NOAA and DART Stations
 NOAA - National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administrations
 Responsible for providing tsunami warnings
to the Nation
 DART - Deep-ocean Assessment and
Reporting of Tsunamis
 Station that detect tsunamis
DART System
DART Program
Objectives
 Build a system based
off of the DART system
that accurately detects
the presence of a
simulated tsunami
 Simulated tsunami is
the longest wavelength
wave that the Hydro
Lab can create
Objectives Cont.
 Communicate the presence of a tsunami to a
communications hub on the surface
 Explore the effect of turbulence on the force
that arrives on shore
 Use environmental sensors to possibly detect
the oxygen level of the water, amount of
marine life activity, or the pH of the water
Hardware

 3 Keller-America
Acculevel Pressure
Sensor

 ES 308 Board
Software
 Dynamic C
 To determine when the pressure is high
enough for a tsunami
 Controls communication to the equipment
on the surface
 Microsoft Excel / Matlab
 Generates plots of Pressure vs. Time
Current Status
 Built circuit
 Soldered extension cables
 Wrote C code
 Modified BNC Cable to talk to Hydro Lab
equipment
 Obtained data at 10 different depths to
calibrate the 3 sensors
Future Aspirations
 Build case to put in the bottom of the
tank
 Obtain and configure communication
equipment
 Conduct turbulence tests

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