Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Triggered by high-magnitude earthquakes, tsunami waves can devastate coastal regions. Some areas are overdue for a large earthquake like the Cascadia Subduction Zone in the Pacific Northwest. The challenge is predicting when a tsunami is advancing, giving communities early enough warning to respond.
Lawrence Livermore researchers and their collaborators at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California San Diego came up with a tsunami prediction framework that combines seafloor sensor data with detailed simulations of wave behavior.
They ran the model on the exascale El Capitan supercomputer during its open science phase and used the Livermore-developed MFEM discretization software to handle the massive mathematical workload. This digital twin framework forecasts tsunami impacts in near real time! Check out Science & Technology Review to find out more.
str.llnl.gov/str-june-2026/tsunami-forecasting-goes-exascale
LLNL-VIDEO-2020921
Triggered by high-magnitude earthquakes, tsunami waves can devastate coastal regions. Some areas are overdue for a large earthquake like the Cascadia Subduction Zone in the Pacific Northwest. The challenge is predicting when a tsunami is advancing, giving communities early enough warning to respond.
Lawrence Livermore researchers and their collaborators at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California San Diego came up with a tsunami prediction framework that combines seafloor sensor data with detailed simulations of wave behavior.
They ran the model on the exascale El Capitan supercomputer during its open science phase and used the Livermore-developed MFEM discretization software to handle the massive mathematical workload. This digital twin framework forecasts tsunami impacts in near real time! Check out Science & Technology Review to find out more.
str.llnl.gov/str-june-2026/tsunami-forecasting-goes-exascale
LLNL-VIDEO-2020921
