Landslide Tsunamis

by Bardet, Jean-Pierre; Synolakis, Costas E.; Davies, Hugh L.; Imamura, Fumihiko; Okal, Emil A.

• ISBN13: 9783764360337
• ISBN10: 376436033X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-31
• Publisher: Birkhauser

Summary

In the wake of the disastrous tsunami which struck Papua New Guinea in 1998, this volume presents 20 state-of-the-art contributions on landslide tsunamis, including earthquake characteristics and ground motions, modeling of landslides in geotechnical engineering, field surveys on land and at sea, simulations of past, present, and potential future tsunamis, and theoretical studies of tsunami generation by landslides.

Table of Contents

Landslide Tsunamis: Recent Findings and Research Directions	1793	(18)
J.-P. Bardet, C.E. Synolakis, H.L. Davies, F. Imamura, E.A. Okal
Characterization of Earthquake Strong Ground Motion	1811	(18)
P.G. Somerville, R.W. Graves
The 1998 Papua New Guinea Earthquake and its Fault Plane Estimated from Relocated Aftershocks	1829	(14)
N. Hurukawa, Y. Tsuji, B. Waluyo
T Waves from the 1998 Papua New Guinea Earthquake and its Aftershocks: Timing the Tsunamigenic Slump	1843	(22)
E.A. Okal
Triggering Mechanisms of Slope Instability and their Relationship to Earthquakes and Tsunamis	1865	(14)
S.G. Wright, E.M. Rathje
Landslide-generated Tsunamis: Geotechnical Considerations	1879	(16)
W.D. Liam Finn
The Aitape 1998 Tsunami: Reconstructing the Event from Interviews and Field Mapping	1895	(28)
H.L. Davies, J.M. Davies, R.C.B. Perembo, W.Y. Lus
Possible Coseismic Large-scale Landslide off the Northern Coast of Papua New Guinea in July 1998: Geophysical and Geological Results from SOS Cruises	1923	(22)
T. Matsumoto, D.R. Tappin, SOS Onboard Scientific Party
Tectonics and Slumping in the Source Region of the 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami from Seismic Reflection Images	1945	(24)
S. Sweet, E.A. Silver
Erosion and Sedimentation from the 17 July, 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami	1969	(32)
G. Gelfenbaum, B. Jaffe
Mitigation Lessons from the July 17, 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami	2001	(32)
L. Dengler, J. Preuss
Large-scale Basement-involved Landslides, California Continental Borderland	2033	(20)
M.R. Legg, M.J. Kamerling
ailure of Marine Deposits and their Redistribution by Sediment Gravity Flows	2053	(18)
J.P.M. Syvitski, E.W.H. Hutton
Re-examination of the Source Mechanism of the 1998 Papua New Guinea Earthquake and Tsunami	2071	(16)
F. Imamura, K. Hashi
The July 1998 Papua New Guinea Earthquake: Mechanism and Quantification of Unusual Tsunami Generation	2087	(32)
K. Satake, Y. Tanioka
Field Survey and Numerical Simulations: A Review of the 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami	2119	(28)
P.J. Lynett, J.C. Borrero, P.L.-F. Liu, C.E. Synolakis
Tsunami Wave Height Dependence on Landslide Volume	2147	(8)
T.S. Murty
Some Aspects of Energy Balance and Tsunami Generation by Earthquakes and Landslides	2155	(22)
L.J. Ruff
A Theoretical Comparison of Tsunamis from Dislocations and Landslides	2177	(12)
E.A. Okal, C.E. Synolakis
Normal Mode Energetics for Far-field Tsunamis Generated by Dislocations and Landslides	2189
E.A. Okal