Tsunami Science Four Years After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

by Cummins, Phil R.; Kong, Laura S. L.; Satake, Kenji

• ISBN13: 9783034600637
• ISBN10: 3034600631
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-29
• Publisher: Birkhauser

Summary

The tragedy of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has led to a rapid expansion in science directed at understanding tsunami and mitigating their hazard. A remarkable cross-section of this research was presented in the session: Tsunami Generation and Hazard, at the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics XXIV General Assembly in Perugia, held in July of 2007. Over one hundred presentations were made at this session, spanning topics ranging from paleotsunami research, to nonlinear shallow-water theory, to tsunami hazard and risk assessment. A selection of this work, along with other contributions from leading tsunami scientists, is published in detail in the 28 papers of this special issue of Pure and Applied Geophysics: Tsunami Science Four Years After the Indian Ocean Tsunami. Part I of this issue includes 14 papers covering the state-of-the-art in tsunami modelling and hazard assessment. Another 14 papers are published in Part II focusing on observations and data analysis.

Table of Contents

Introduction to "Tsunami Science Four Years After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Part II: Observation and Data Analysis"	p. 1
Field Survey and Geological Effects of the 15 November 2006 Kuril Tsunami in the Middle Kuril Islands	p. 9
The November 15, 2006 Kuril Islands-Generated Tsunami in Crescent City, California	p. 37
Validation and Joint Inversion of Teleseismic Waveforms for Earthquake Source Models Using Deep Ocean Bottom Pressure Records: A Case Study of the 2006 Kuril Megathrust Earthquake	p. 55
Variable Tsunami Sources and Seismic Gaps in the Southernmost Kuril Trench: A Review	p. 77
In situ Measurements of Tide Gauge Response and Corrections of Tsunami Waveforms from the Niigataken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake in 2007	p. 97
Excitation of Resonant Modes along the Japanese Coast by the 1993 and 1983 Tsunamis in the Japan Sea	p. 117
Numerical Study of Tsunami Generated by Multiple Submarine Slope Failures in Resurrection Bay, Alaska, during the Mw 9.2 1964 Earthquake	p. 131
Lituya Bay Landslide Impact Generated Mega-Tsunami 50th Anniversary	p. 153
Tsunamis on the Pacific Coast of Canada Recorded in 1994-2007	p. 177
The 15 August 2007 Peru Earthquake and Tsunami: Influence of the Source Characteristics on the Tsunami Heights	p. 211
Tide Gauge Observations of 2004-2007 Indian Ocean Tsunamis from Sri Lanka and Western Australia	p. 233
Reconstruction of Tsunami Inland Propagation on December 26, 2004 in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, through Field Investigations	p. 259
The 1856 Tsunami of Djidjelli (Eastern Algeria): Seismotectonics, Modelling and Hazard Implications for the Algerian Coast	p. 283
Analysis of Observed and Predicted Tsunami Travel Times for the Pacific and Indian Oceans	p. 301
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