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Angel Ruiz-Angulo

Angel Ruiz-Angulo

Lead Author, University of Iceland

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"We are missing something in the models we used to run. We need to quantify this excess of dispersive energy and evaluate if it has an impact that was not considered before."

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Satellite reveals tsunamis don't behave as scientists thought

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Published groundbreaking SWOT tsunami analysis in The Seismic Record

NASA's SWOT satellite caught a magnitude 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake's tsunami in unprecedented detail on July 30, 2025. The waves weren't behaving like a single stable swell—they scattered, interacted, and dispersed across the Pacific basin like nothing scientists expected from textbook models. For 50 years, researchers treated big tsunamis as 'non-dispersive,' meaning they travel as one coherent wave. That assumption just died.

Updated Jan 6