With yesterday’s terrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan, I thought I’d pull together a separate “The Best…” list explaining tsunamis.

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Here are my choices for The Best Sites To Learn About Tsunamis:

How Tsunamis Work From How Stuff Works

Here’s a free Brainpop movie on Tsunamis.

The Christian Science Monitor lists the five most devastating tsunamis.

Slate explains why is Crescent City, Calif. is so susceptible to tsunamis.

Tsunamis: World’s Most Devastating is a slideshow from LIFE.

What is a tsunami? comes from CNN.

Tsunami explained is an interactive from The BBC.

What is a Tsunami?

Woods Hole has an interactive.

The Destructive Power of Water is a useful New York Times article.

Go to the “Forces Of Nature” section of this Associated Press interactive.

Here’s a video from Channel One:

These next four resources would have to be modified to be made accessible to ELL’s:

California’s tsunami threat is from The Los Angeles Times

The Awesome Unpredictability of Tsunamis is from The Wall Street Journal.

Lesson Plan: The Science of Tsunamis: Seeking Understanding In The Wake of Tragedy is from PBS.

Tsunamis: A Primer comes from The New York Review of Books

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