NOAA Center for Tsunami Research

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As of May 2026: Integrating SWOT data into operational tsunami forecasts

NASA's SWOT satellite caught a magnitude 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake's tsunami in unprecedented detail on July 30, 2025. The waves scattered, interacted, and dispersed across the Pacific, contradicting the 50-year assumption that they travel as one coherent swell.

Updated May 19