Frank Vernon, Deputy Project Manager for the CI, Reports on Japan Quake and Tsunami

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography responded to media inquiries regarding the magnitude 8.9 earthquake and resulting tsunami off the coast of Japan.  Frank Vernon, Deputy Project Manager of the CI, and Principal Investigator for the ANZA Network Broadband Seismic Collection Network, spoke to reporters at the San Diego Union Tribune about the possibility of tsunami waves reaching San Diego.  You can view the tsunami signal recorded at La Jolla here.  

Frank spoke with Chris Matthews about the earthquake on MSNBC's Hardball as well, and is quoted in the following articles in the Vancouver Sun, The Ottowa Citizen and on PBS NewsHour.

Debi Kilb, the CI EPE Liaison and a researcher at Scripps Oceanography, also responded to numerous media inquiries, and created an interactive visualization of the earthquake and the first 225 aftershocks.