Tsunami Risk: Identifying Disasters Before (And After) They Happen - Beverly Goodman

Studying extreme events in our past can warn us of the possibilities for similar diasters in the future. Not known as a tsunami hotspot in the same way that the Pacific Ocean is, the Mediterranean Sea still holds the second largest tsunami risk of all the world’s bodies of water, says National Geographic geo-archaeologist and Emerging Explorer Beverly Goodman. She studies the ocean floors for “tsunami deposits” that indicate that the huge waves have rolled over the seas above. Goodman says that as the waves have rolled through the Mediterranean and Red Sea in the past, it’s an indication that they could do so again in the future.