Tsunami and Its Hazards in the Indian and Pacific Oceans

by Satake, Kenji; Okal, Emile A.; Borrero, Jose C.

• ISBN13: 9783764383633
• ISBN10: 3764383631
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-30
• Publisher: Birkhauser

Summary

Tsunamis like the Indian Ocean tsunami caused by the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake in 2004 or the Chilean earthquake in the Pacific Ocean in 1960 motivate international collaborations for the development of tsunami warning systems. Since 1960 the Tsunami Commission, established by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, has been holding a biannual International Tsunami Symposium (ITS). This volume contains 20 contributions of leading scientists mostly presented at the 22nd International Tsunami Symposium held in summer 2005 in Greece. Consolidated findings based on hydrophone records, seismometer readings, and tide gauges are presented. Reports of post-tsunami surveys and numerical simulations for tsunamis such as the 2004 Indian Ocean event, as well as geological studies of tsunamis in Japan, Central and North America are given. Probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis and tsunami warning systems, among others, are described as methods to predict tsunamis and mitigate their hazards.

Table of Contents

Tsunami and its hazard in the Indian and Pacific Oceans : introduction	p. 249
The 26 December 2004 Sumatra tsunami : analysis of tide gauge data from the World Ocean part 1 : Indian Ocean and South Africa	p. 261
Quantification of hydrophone records of the 2004 Sumatra tsunami	p. 309
Seismic records of the 2004 Sumatra and other tsunamis : a quantitative study	p. 325
M[subscript TSU] : recovering seismic moments from tsunameter records	p. 355
The tsunami of 26 December, 2004 : numerical modeling and energy considerations	p. 379
Field survey of tsunami effects in Sri Lanka due to the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004	p. 395
Field signatures of the SE-Asian mega-tsunami along the west coast of Thailand compared to Holocene Paleo-Tsunami from the Atlantic region	p. 413
Eyewitness accounts of the impact of the 1998 Aitape tsunami, and of other tsunamis in living memory, in the region from Jayapura, Indonesia, to Vanimo, Papua New Guinea	p. 433
Phases representing source lengths of tsunami in tide gauge records	p. 453
Numerical simulations of tsunami waves and currents for Southern Vancouver Island from a Cascadia megathrust earthquake	p. 465
Overview of Holocene tsunami deposits along the Nankai, Suruga, and Sagami Troughs, southwest Japan	p. 493
Micromorphological analysis of coastal sediments from Willapa Bay, Washington, USA : a technique for analysing inferred tsunami deposits	p. 509
Volcanogenic tsunamis in lakes : examples from Nicaragua and general implications	p. 527
Estimation of tsunami hazard in New Zealand due to South American earthquakes	p. 547
Tsunami assessment for risk management at nuclear power facilities in Japan	p. 565
Logic-tree approach for probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis and its applications to the Japanese coasts	p. 577
Conditional probability approach of the assessment of tsunami potential : application in three tsunamigenic regions of the Pacific Ocean	p. 593
Steps towards the implementation of a tsunami detection, warning, mitigation and preparedness program for southwestern coastal areas of Mexico	p. 605
A study of tsunami wave fission in an undistorted experiment	p. 617
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