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Ben Hamlington

Ben Hamlington

NASA JPL Oceanographer, Sea Level and Ice Group

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"A 1.5-foot-tall wave might not seem like much, but tsunamis are waves that extend from the seafloor to the ocean's surface."

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Satellite reveals tsunamis don't behave as scientists thought

New Capabilities

Leading NASA's sea level research and SWOT science applications

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