Engineer creates video game of Alaska’s Tracy Arm landslide, which generated a megatsunami

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Patrick Lynett, a USC civil engineering professor, said when it comes to natural disasters, training people how to react is important, and one way to do that is through digital work like the simulation and video game he created that depicts what happened.

  I think that if you’re in a boat right next to the initiation of a 328-foot-high megatsunami, going 1,578 feet up a rock cliff, as the video portrays in the game, you’re probably just pretty much boned.

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  • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, we’re all going to die one day. At least those people got to go out like a Michael Bay movie.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And then the wave exploded into a fireball.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So when you go to the Eddy, which is the big wave tournament that runs on North shore if the waves are 40ft plus, like, once a wave starts getting above a certain size it starts changing behavior in weird ways. Like I can remember during the last Eddy when the waves were 50ft plus, they would get like, little cracks or rivers forming on their face as they continued to gain size but were also falling apart as they did so. It was truly bizarre and surreal and even more surreal to watch surfers ride the face of something the size of an apartment building.

  I’ve heard they get bigger in Portugal, but I’m pretty sure it’s close to the natural limit of how big a non tsunami wave can be. And tsunami waves are very different than sea waves in their structure. Still, it’s one of the only times you can get close to wave like the one in the sim.

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  • QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, the underwater of topography at Nazaré is just right to funnel all of the energy into a single point where the wave then breaks.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAF7k8cSJsk&t=106s

    Video of current world record holder for largest wave surfed:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFEh_-tYTS0

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      :100:

      And I would say that Waimaea is like, maybe not as scary as Nazaré, just because it is more slabbed up and a more reliable right. Like, I coudn’t say that when Waimaea is firing its not pure chaos because cmon. 50+ft waves. But like, the way the break is and how it forms, its why people can still paddle into that wave an not have to get towed in.

      And structurally its the same concept. Waimaea canyon is right behind the break and its a deeeeeep canyon. Just that we get bigger direct sets with a lot more ocean behind them than Portugal.

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• StillAlive@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The game is not yet available to the public, but he is working on making it available on Steam for free, he said.

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