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Tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean: 2011-2012

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Editors:
  1. Alexander B. Rabinovich

    1. Sidney, Canada

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  2. Jose C. Borrero

    1. Tsunami Research Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

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  3. Hermann M. Fritz

    1. School of Civil & Environmental Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

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  • Advanced tsunami science
  • New information and knowledge about recent catastrophic tsunami events
  • Leading tsunami scientists are represented
  • More than a dozen contributions to the 2011 Tohoku tsunami

Part of the book series: Pageoph Topical Volumes (PTV)

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Keywords

  • 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami
  • DART
  • Seiches
  • Spectral analysis
  • Tsunami field survey
  • Tsunami numerical modelling
  • Tsunami records
  • coastal sciences

About this book

The 2011 Tohoku earthquake generated a catastrophic tsunami that killed nearly 20,000 people along the coast of Japan and caused the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The tsunami propagated throughout the Pacific Ocean and also affected many other countries, including Russia, the USA, New Zealand, French Polynesia and Chile, demonstrating once again the terrible threat that tsunami waves pose for Pacific countries and the need for basin-wide international scientific collaboration.

Following a brief introduction, this volume presents 21 scientific papers, including 12 on aspects of the 2011 Tohoku event. A first group of papers provides detailed field survey results from the coasts of Japan and Russia and examines the wave dynamics on the basis of these surveys, the source mechanism of the earthquake, and the far-field impacts of the Tohoku tsunami. The second group reports on the 2012 tsunamis in El Salvador, the Philippines, off the east coast of Honshu and the landmark Haida Gwaii event off the west coast of British Columbia, Canada, while the papers in a third set discuss a number of remaining challenging questions in tsunami science and warning.
The volume will be of interest to scientists and practitioners involved in all aspects of tsunamis from earthquake source processes to transoceanic wave propagation and coastal impacts. Postgraduate students in geophysics, oceanography and coastal engineering – as well as those in the broader geosciences, civil and environmental engineering – will also find the book a valuable resource, as it combines recent case studies with the latest advances in tsunami science and natural hazards mitigation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Sidney, Canada

    Alexander B. Rabinovich

  • Tsunami Research Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

    Jose C. Borrero

  • School of Civil & Environmental Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

    Hermann M. Fritz

About the editors

Dr. Alexander B. Rabinovich, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Sidney, BC, Canada

Prof. Jose Borrero, Tsunami Research Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA , USA

Prof. Hermann Fritz, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean: 2011-2012

  • Editors: Alexander B. Rabinovich, Jose C. Borrero, Hermann M. Fritz

  • Series Title: Pageoph Topical Volumes

  • Publisher: Springer Basel

  • Copyright Information: Springer Basel 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-0864-4Published: 06 March 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2504-3625

  • Series E-ISSN: 2504-3633

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 366

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