Submarine Landslides and Tsunamis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. General Aspects of Tsunami Researches

   1. Front Matter

      Pages xxi-xxi

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   2. Tsunamis of Seismic Origin

      • N. Shuto

      Pages 1-8

   3. Needs and Perspectives of Tsunami Research in Europe

      • S. Tinti

      Pages 9-16

3. Historical Tsunamis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages N1-N1

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   2. Identification of Slide-Generated Tsunamis in the Historical Catalogues

      • V. K. Gusiakov

      Pages 17-24

   3. Updating and Revision of the European Tsunami Catalogue

      • A. Maramai, L. Graziani, S. Tinti

      Pages 25-32

   4. Tsunami of ŞArkoy-Mürefte 1912 Earthquake: Western Marmara, Turkey

      • Y. Altinok, B. Alpar, C. Yaltirak

      Pages 33-42

   5. Spatial, and Temporal Periodicity in the Pacific Tsunami Occurrence

      • E. V. Sassorova, B. W. Levin

      Pages 43-50

4. Submarine Landslides, and Tsunami Generation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages N3-N3

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   2. Submarine Landslide Generated Waves Modeled Using Depth-Integrated Equations

      • Patrick Lynett, Philip L.-F. Liu

      Pages 51-58

   3. Near-Field Amplitudes of Tsunami from Submarine Slumps and Slides

      • M. I. Todorovska, A. Hayir, M. D. Trifunac

      Pages 59-68

   4. Numerical Modeling of Tsunami Generation by Submarine and Subaerial Landslides

      • Isaac V. Fine, Alexander B. Rabinovich, Richard E. Thomson, Evgueni A. Kulikov

      Pages 69-88

   5. Tsunami Simulation Taking Into Account Seismically Induced Dynamic Seabed Displacement, and Acoustic Effects of Water

      • Tatsuo Ohmachi

      Pages 89-99

   6. Impulsive Tsunami Generation by Rapid Bottom Deflections at Initially Uniform Depth

      • P. A. Tyvand, T. Miloh, K. B. Haugen

      Pages 101-109

   7. Analytical Models of Tsunami Generation by Submarine Landslides

      • Efim Pelinovsky

      Pages 111-128

   8. Tsunami Generation in Compressible Ocean of Variable Depth

      • M. A. Nosov, S. V. Kolesov

      Pages 129-137

   9. Tsunami Wave Excitation by a Local Floor Disturbance

      • I.T. Selezov

      Pages 139-150

   10. Effects of Tsunami at Sissano Lagoon, Papua New Guinea: Submarine-Landslide, and Tectonics Origins

       • Masafumi Matsuyama, Harry Yeh

       Pages 151-162

   11. Natural Gas Hydrates as a Cause of Underwater Landslides: A Review

       • M. Parlaktuna

       Pages 163-169

Tsunamis are water waves triggered by impulsive geologic events such as sea floor deformation, landslides, slumps, subsidence, volcanic eruptions and bolide impacts. Tsunamis can inflict significant damage and casualties both nearfield and after evolving over long propagation distances and impacting distant coastlines. Tsunamis can also effect geomorphologic changes along the coast. Understanding tsunami generation and evolution is of paramount importance for protecting coastal population at risk, coastal structures and the natural environment. Accurately and reliably predicting the initial waveform and the associated coastal effects of tsunamis remains one of the most vexing problems in geophysics, and -with few exceptions- has resisted routine numerical computation or data collection solutions. While ten years ago, it was believed that the generation problem was adequately understood for useful predictions, it is now clear that it is not, especially nearfield. By contrast, the runup problem earlier believed intractable is now well understood for all but the most extreme breaking wave events.

• Coast
• Ocean
• marine
• modeling
• modelling
• hydrogeology

• Department of Civil Engineering, Ocean Engineering Research Center, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

  Ahmet C. Yalçiner

• Institute of Applied Physics, Laboratory of Hydrophysics and Nonlinear Acoustics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

  Efim N. Pelinovsky

• Department of Geological Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

  Emile Okal

• Department of Civil and Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  Costas E. Synolakis

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