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Tsunamis, Earthquakes and Volcanoes

NCEI and the co-located World Data Service (WDS) for Geophysics archives and assimilates tsunami, earthquake and volcano data to support research, planning, response and mitigation. Long-term data, including photographs, can be used to establish the history of natural hazard occurrences and help mitigate future events.

Access Tools

Tsunami Travel Times Interactive Map

This map displays estimated pre-computed tsunami travel times to select coastal locations from any point in the ocean. Travel times (in hours), were calculated with TTT Software (P. Wessel, Geoware) using bathymetry derived from the 2 arc-minute ETOPO2 grid.

Natural Hazards Interactive Map

Use the Natural Hazards Interactive Map to browse data from significant tsunami, earthquake, and volcano events around the world.

Natural Hazards Images

Use the Natural Hazards Image Database to browse tsunami, earthquake, and volcano images.

Natural Hazards Data

Tsunami, earthquake, and volcano data are available through the NCEI Hazardous Event Lookup (HazEL) search tool.