The Andes Mountains are home to diverse forest ecosystems including rainforests and cloud forests. Hummingbirds in this region are vulnerable to climate change.
Eddie Bernard, director of the Pacific Marine Environmental laboratory in Seattle, said scientists model how a tsunami will strike a coast - even far away.
Following the March 11, 2011 8.9-magnitude earthquake near Japan, a model of wave heights above normal sea level across the region and how long after the 0546 GMT earthquake they are expected.