{"id":628515,"date":"2019-08-26T08:50:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T12:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=628515"},"modified":"2019-08-26T08:50:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T12:50:02","slug":"deducing-the-scale-of-tsunamis-from-the-roundness-of-deposited-gravel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=628515","title":{"rendered":"Deducing the scale of tsunamis from the &#039;roundness&#039; of deposited gravel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University and Ritsumeikan University have found a link between the &#8220;roundness&#8221; distribution of tsunami deposits and how far tsunamis reach inland. They sampled the &#8220;roundness&#8221; of gravel from different tsunamis in Koyadori, Japan, and found a common, abrupt change in composition approximately 40 percent of the &#8220;inundation distance&#8221; from the shoreline, regardless of tsunami magnitude. Estimates of ancient tsunami size from geological deposits may help inform effective disaster mitigation.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-08-deducing-scale-tsunamis-roundness-deposited.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Deducing the scale of tsunamis from the &#8217;roundness&#8217; of deposited gravel<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University and Ritsumeikan University have found a link between the &#8220;roundness&#8221; distribution of tsunami deposits and how far tsunamis reach inland. They sampled the &#8220;roundness&#8221; of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}