Overview
- Contains up-to-date developments in tsunami science
- Combines recent case studies with advances in tsunami science and natural hazards mitigation
- Presents overview articles from the 1992–2018 tsunami events and post-event field surveys
Part of the book series: Pageoph Topical Volumes (PTV)
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Keywords
- Flores Island Tsunami
- 1992 Nicaragua Tsunami
- Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Analysis
- Tsunami Early Warning System
- Earthquake-Triggered Landslide
About this book
The two 1992 events near Nicaragua and Flores Island, Indonesia, marked the beginning of a “modern tsunami science era” producing highly destructive tsunamis and opened a 25-year period of numerous devastating events, including two of the most destructive natural disasters in recent human history: the 26 December 2004 Sumatra and the 11 March 2011 Tohoku tsunamis. The book is of interest to scientists and practitioners as well postgraduate students in geophysics, oceanography and coastal engineering, involved in all aspects of tsunamis, from earthquake source processes to transoceanic wave propagation, from coastal impacts to hazard assessment and combining recent case studies with advances in tsunami science and natural hazards mitigation.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yuichiro Tanioka is currently Professor at the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Japan. He is also Member of earthquake research committees of the Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion in Japan. He was Director of the Institute of Seismology and Volcanology at Hokkaido University until 2018. He was also Vice-President of the Seismological Society of Japan until 2017. He is interested in research on tsunami generation mechanism, source processes of great earthquakes, and development of tsunami early warning techniques.
Emile A. Okal is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Northwestern University. He is a Seismologist with a specialization in tsunamis and the origin of deep earthquakes. He holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology.
Maria Ana Baptista is Professor at Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa and Invited Professor at Universidade de Lisboa. She holds a Ph.D. in Physics—Geophysics of the University of Lisbon. Her research interests are tsunamis and natural hazards. She was Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group of IOC UNESCO for the implementation of the Tsunami Early Warning System in the period 2007–2011 and involved actively in the implementation of the Portuguese Tsunami Warning System. She coordinated the FP7 project on tsunamis—ASTARTE (Assessment Strategy and Risk Reduction for Tsunamis in Europe).
Alexander B. Rabinovich, Ph.D.,is Research Scientist at both the Tsunami Laboratory, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, and at the Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, BC, Canada. His research interests include tsunamis, sea level variations, seiches, tides, wave dynamics of shelf and coastal regions, and time series analysis.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Twenty Five Years of Modern Tsunami Science Following the 1992 Nicaragua and Flores Island Tsunamis. Volume II
Editors: Utku Kânoğlu, Yuichiro Tanioka, Emile A. Okal, Maria Ana Baptista, Alexander B. Rabinovich
Series Title: Pageoph Topical Volumes
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86456-9Published: 19 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2504-3625
Series E-ISSN: 2504-3633
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 511
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 220 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: PB spin-off book from the journal Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 177, Issue 3, March 2020