USING HISTORIC TSUNAMI, SIGNIFICANT EARTHQUAKE AND SIGNIFICANT VOLCANIC ERUPTION MAPPED DATA AS EDUCATIONAL AND OUTREACH TOOLS

NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) and co-located World Data Center (WDC) for Geophysics and Marine Geology and the International Tsunami Information Center (ITIC), a UNESCO/IOCNOAA partnership, have collaborated to produce three educational print and digital maps depicting the following geologic events: 1. Significant volcanic eruptions 4360 B.C. to A.D. 2010; 2. Significant earthquakes 2150 B.C. to A.D. 2010; and 3. Tsunami sources 1650 B.C. to A.D. 2010 from earthquake, volcano, landslide and other causes. These maps identify event location, intensity, and socio-economic effects overlaid onto detailed topography and bathymetry from the ETOPO1 1 Arc-Minute Global Relief Model. Each map also lists details of the most intense and fatal events, including dates, damage and local/regional effects. The data are mainly compiled from NGDC’s global historical volcanic, earthquake and tsunami integrated databases. For reference purposes, the posters also provide non-damaging earthquakes and volcanic eruptions from the Smithsonian Institute’s Global Volcanism Program, and the U.S. Geological Survey’s Preliminary Determination of Epicenters.