Overview
- Contributions to the first Meeting of the Tsunami Commission after the big tsunami in the Indian Ocean following the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake 2004
- Deals with tsunami dangers and early warning systems
- Editors are world-famous scientists in this research field
Part of the book series: Pageoph Topical Volumes (PTV)
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Table of contents (20 papers)
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About this book
Tsunamis like the Indian Ocean tsunami caused by the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake in 2004 or the Chilean earthquake in the Pacific Ocean in 1960 motivate international collaborations for the development of tsunami warning systems. Since 1960 the Tsunami Commission, established by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, has been holding a biannual International Tsunami Symposium (ITS).
This volume contains 20 contributions of leading scientists mostly presented at the 22nd International Tsunami Symposium held in summer 2005 in Greece. Consolidated findings based on hydrophone records, seismometer readings, and tide gauges are presented. Reports of post-tsunami surveys and numerical simulations for tsunamis such as the 2004 Indian Ocean event, as well as geological studies of tsunamis in Japan, Central and North America are given. Probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis and tsunami warning systems, among others, are described as methods to predict tsunamis and mitigate their hazards.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tsunami and its Hazards in the Indian and Pacific Oceans
Editors: Kenji Satake, Emile A. Okal, José C. Borrero
Series Title: Pageoph Topical Volumes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8364-0
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Basel 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-8363-3Published: 16 May 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7643-8364-0Published: 11 December 2007
Series ISSN: 2504-3625
Series E-ISSN: 2504-3633
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 384
Topics: Natural Hazards, Oceanography, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Hydrogeology, Geophysics/Geodesy