Tsunamis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Case Studies

   1. 1992–2002: Perspective on a Decade of Post-Tsunami Surveys

      • C.E. Synolakis, E.A. Okal

      Pages 1-29

   2. The Fiordland Earthquake and Tsunami, New Zealand, 21 August 2003

      • W. Power, G. Downes, M. Mcsaveney, J. Beavan, G. Hancox

      Pages 31-42

   3. Timing and Scale of Tsunamis Caused by the 1994 Rabaul Eruption, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea

      • Y. Nishimura, M. Nakagawa, J. Kuduon, J. Wukawa

      Pages 43-56

   4. Analysis of Tide-Gauge Records of the 1883 Krakatau Tsunami

      • E. Pelinovsky, B. H. Choi, A. Stromkov, I. Didenkulova, H.-S. Kim

      Pages 57-77

   5. Model of Tsunami Generation by Collapse of Volcanic Eruption: The 1741 Oshima-Oshima Tsunami

      • K. Kawamata, K. Takaoka, K. Ban, F. Imamura, S. Yamaki, E. Kobayashi

      Pages 79-96

   6. Tsunami Resonance Curve from Dominant Periods Observed in Bays of Northeastern Japan

      • K. Abe

      Pages 97-113

   7. Delayed Peaks of Tsunami Waveforms at Miyako from Earthquakes East off Hokkaido

      • Y. Namegaya, Y. Tsuji

      Pages 115-134

   8. Field Survey of the 2003 Tokachi-Oki Earthquake Tsunami and Simulation at the Ootsu Harbor Located at the Pacific Coast of Hokkaido, Japan

      • Y. Tanioka, Y. Nishimura, K. Hirakawa, F. Imamura, I. Abe, Y. Abe et al.

      Pages 135-156

   9. Variability Among Tsunami Sources in the 17th–21st Centuries Along the Soutehrn Kuril Trench

      • K. Satake, F. Nanayama, S. Yamaki, Y. Tanioka, K. Hirata

      Pages 157-170

   10. Holocene Tsunami Traces on Kunashir Island, Kurile Subduction Zone

       • A.Ya. Iliev, V.M. Kaistrenko, E.V. Gretskaya, E.A. Tikhonchuk, N.G. Razjigaeva, T.A. Grebennikova et al.

       Pages 171-192

   11. Distribution of Cumulative Tsunami Energy from Alaska-Aleutians to Western Canada

       • T. Hatori

       Pages 193-201

3. Recent Developments

   1. Mapping the Possible Tsunami Hazard as the First Step Towards a Tsunami Resistant Community in Esmeraldas, Ecuador

      • P. Arreaga-Vargas, M. Ortiz, S. F. Farreras

      Pages 203-215

   2. Progresses in the Assessment of Tsunami Genesis and Impacts around the Portuguese Coasts

      • L. Mendes-Victor, A. Ribeiro, L. Matias, M. Ana Baptista, J. Miguel Miranda, P. Miranda et al.

      Pages 217-230

   3. Quick Tsunami Forecasting Based on Database

      • H.-J. Lee, Y.-S. Cho, S.-B. Woo

      Pages 231-240

   4. Adjoint Inversion of the Source Parameters of Near-Shore Tsunamigenic Earthquakes

      • C. Pires, P. M. A. Miranda

      Pages 241-258

   5. Experimental Design for Solid Block and Granular Submarine Landslides: A Unified Approach

      • J. G. Fleming, R. A. Walters, L. P. Sue, R. I. Nokes

      Pages 259-277

   6. Effects of Coastal Forest on Tsunami Hazard Mitigation — A Preliminary Investigation

      • K. Harada1, F. Imamura

      Pages 279-292

   7. Fluid Force on Vegetation Due to Tsunami Flow on a Sand Spit

      • Kentaro Imai, Hideo Matsutomi

      Pages 293-304

   8. Hydro-Acoustic Monitoring on the Kamchatka Shelf: A Possibility of Early Location of Oceanic Earthquake and Local Tsunami Warning

      • E. V. Sasorova, B. W. Levin, V. E. Morozov, I. N. Didenkulov

      Pages 305-317

This book contains 20 papers reflecting the state-of-the-art tsunami research. Most of them were presented at the two international meetings held in 2003: the 21st International Tsunami Symposium, held on July 9 and 10th as a part of IUGG general assembly in Sapporo, Japan, and an International Workshop on Tsunamis in the South Pacific, held on September 25 and 26th in Wellington, New Zealand. More recent work, including the field survey report of the Tokachi-oki earthquake tsunami of September 26, 2003, is also included. Synolakis and Okall summarize the survey results of International Tsunami Survey Teams, as well as seismological and numerical modelling studies of 15 tsunami events occurred between 1992 and 2002. In this active decade of tsunami disasters, the tsunami community has learned how to organize ITST, describe, document and share the results of surveys. The authors also propose a method to discriminate the seismic tsunamis from landslide tsunamis based on the observed runup heights, and demonstrate it for the recent tsunamis. Power et al. report the tsunamis generated by the 2003 Fiordland, New Zealand, earthquake (M 7. 2). This earthquake generated two kinds of tsunamis; a local large (4-5 m) tsunami generated by rockslide in a sound, and a smaller tsunami generated by earthquake fa aulting and detected on tide gauges in Australia. Three papers discuss volcanic tsunamis in the western Pacific region. Nishimura et al. report the tsunami from the 1994 eruption of Rabaul volcanoes.

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• National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan

  Kenji Satake

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