Tsunami Events and Lessons Learned
Environmental and Societal Significance
Editors: Kontar, Yev, Santiago-Fandiño, Vicente, Takahashi, Tomoyuki (Eds.)
Free Preview- Updated information about latest tsunamis in the Indian and Pacific Ocean
- Covers various tsunami events as well as impacts and lessons learned
- Overview of specific geographical areas heavily impacted by tsunamis
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- About this book
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This book is a collective effort by world experts, bringing together assorted contributions presented during the Ocean Science Session OS-017, of the AOGS-AGU Joint Assembly held in Singapore in 2012 (the Asia Tsunami and Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami events). The chapters cover assessment, evaluation, forecast and lessons learned as well as environmental and societal impacts of the latest tsunamis that occurred in the Indian Ocean in 2004 and the Pacific Ocean in Japan 2011.
The book is aimed at experts, scientists and decision makers seeking recent updated information, knowledge and experiences to better understand, quantify, forecast and protect coastal water resources, ecosystems, communities and human settlements which are often affected by tsunamis.
- Table of contents (25 chapters)
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The Tsunami and Earthquake in Miyagi Prefecture and Sanriku 2011–2012: An Overview
Pages 1-54
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Assessment and Modeling of Dispersal Contamination Incoming with Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) in Tsunami Affected Coastal Areas
Pages 55-88
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Tsunami Inundation Modeling of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Using Three-Dimensional Building Data for Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Pages 89-98
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Numerical Simulation of Coastal Sediment Transport by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake Tsunami
Pages 99-112
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NOAA’s Historical Tsunami Event Database, Raw and Processed Water Level Data, and Model Output Relevant to the 11 March 2011 Tohoku, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Pages 113-127
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Tsunami Events and Lessons Learned
- Book Subtitle
- Environmental and Societal Significance
- Editors
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- Yev Kontar
- Vicente Santiago-Fandiño
- Tomoyuki Takahashi
- Series Title
- Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
- Series Volume
- 35
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- Distribution Rights
- Distribution rights for India: Delhi Book Store, New Delhi, India
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-7269-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-7269-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-7268-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-024-0048-9
- Series ISSN
- 1878-9897
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 467
- Number of Illustrations
- 33 b/w illustrations, 187 illustrations in colour
- Topics
