Overview
- Presents research on past and recent destructive tsunamis
- Covers deep-sea (DART) and coastal tsunami observations, warning systems and risk management in the Pacific Ocean
- Includes studies on the 1755 Lisbon, 1964 Alaska, 2003 Algeria, and 2011 Haiti tsunamis
Part of the book series: Pageoph Topical Volumes (PTV)
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Keywords
- Tsunami DART observations
- Tsunami early warning
- Tsunami risk management
- probabilistic tsunami hazard study
- coastal sciences
- historical geology
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Historical and Recent Catastrophic Tsunamis in the World
Book Subtitle: Volume II. Tsunamis from 1755 to 2010
Editors: Kenji Satake, Alexander B. Rabinovich, Dale Dominey-Howes, José C. Borrero
Series Title: Pageoph Topical Volumes
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Copyright Information: Springer Basel 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-0702-9Published: 29 October 2013
Series ISSN: 2504-3625
Series E-ISSN: 2504-3633
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 311