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Historical and Recent Catastrophic Tsunamis in the World

Volume I. The 2011 Tohoku Tsunami

Birkhäuser

Editors:

  1. Kenji Satake

    1. Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  2. Alexander B. Rabinovich

    1. P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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  3. Dale Dominey-Howes

    1. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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  4. José C. Borrero

    1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

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  • Presents research about the worldshaking Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011
  • Covers data analyses and numerical simulations
  • Includes studies on the impact of the Tohoku Tsunami on other regions, e.g. Australia, New Zealand, Galapagos, and California

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The 2011 Tohoku earthquake generated a tsunami that caused severe damage including 20,000 casualties in Japan. The tsunami also affected other Pacific coasts, including the Kuril Islands, the USA, French Polynesia, the Galapagos Islands, Australia, and New Zealand. This volume contains an introduction and 21papers, mostly presented at the 25th International Tsunami Symposium held 1-4 July 2011, only four months after the tsunami. They report seismological aspects of the event related to the tsunami warning, the tsunami impacts and effects in Japan and around the Pacific, analyses of instrumental tsunami data and modelling.
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Keywords

  • Tohoku Earthquake
  • Tsunami effects on coastal infrastructure and buildings
  • data analysis, real time assessment and modelling
  • historical comparison
  • tsunami impacts and effects in Japan
  • coastal sciences
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Kenji Satake

  • P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander B. Rabinovich

  • School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Dale Dominey-Howes

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

    José C. Borrero

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Historical and Recent Catastrophic Tsunamis in the World

  • Book Subtitle: Volume I. The 2011 Tohoku Tsunami

  • Editors: Kenji Satake, Alexander B. Rabinovich, Dale Dominey-Howes, José C. Borrero

  • Series Title: Pageoph Topical Volumes

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • Copyright Information: Springer Basel 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-0699-2Published: 17 September 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2504-3625

  • Series E-ISSN: 2504-3633

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 405

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