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Tsunami Science: Ten years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

Volume I

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Editors:
  1. Alexander B. Rabinovich

    1. Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Inst of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, Canada

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  2. Eric L. Geist

    1. U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, USA

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  3. Hermann M. Fritz

    1. School of Civil & Environmental Engineer, Georgia Inst of Technology Sch of Civil & Environmental Eng, Atlanta, USA

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  4. Jose C. Borrero

    1. eCoast Marine Consulting & Research, Raglan, New Zealand

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  • State of the art in many aspects of tsunami research
  • Authored by some of the top tsunami scientists around the world
  • Scientific and applied problems of tsunami examination and warning

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

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Keywords

  • 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami
  • DART
  • Tsunami Warning System
  • Tsunami runup and inundation
  • spectral analysis
  • coastal sciences

About this book

This is the first volume of a collection of essays focusing on progress in tsunami science since the great tsunami of 26 December. A magnitude Mw 9.1 earthquake (third strongest ever instrumentally recorded) generated a global tsunami that killed about 230,000 people along the coasts of 14 countries in the Indian Ocean and propagated as far as the North Pacific and North Atlantic.

Since then, various countries from around the globe contributed major funding to tsunami research and mitigation, enabling the installation of hundreds of new high-precision instruments, the development of new technology and the establishment of more modern communication systems. As a result, incredible progress has been achieved in tsunami research and operation during the ten years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

The papers presented in this first of two special volumes of Pure and Applied Geophysics reflect the state of tsunami science during this time. Eight papers are related to casestudies highlighting regional hazards around the globe, while five papers record progress in tsunami warning systems. Benchmark studies that describe the accuracy of numerical models for tsunami impact, as well as a variety of inundation and generation studies, are presented by 7 additional papers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Inst of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, Canada

    Alexander B. Rabinovich

  • U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, USA

    Eric L. Geist

  • School of Civil & Environmental Engineer, Georgia Inst of Technology Sch of Civil & Environmental Eng, Atlanta, USA

    Hermann M. Fritz

  • eCoast Marine Consulting & Research, Raglan, New Zealand

    Jose C. Borrero

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tsunami Science: Ten years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

  • Book Subtitle: Volume I

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

  • Series Title: Pageoph Topical Volumes

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • Copyright Information: Springer Basel 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-0911-5Published: 27 March 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2504-3625

  • Series E-ISSN: 2504-3633

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 390

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