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Tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean: 2011-2012 (Paperback)
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Tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean: 2011-2012 (Paperback)
Series: Pageoph Topical Volumes
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The 2011 Tohoku earthquake generated a catastrophic tsunami that
killed nearly 20,000 people along the coast of Japan and caused the
nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The
tsunami propagated throughout the Pacific Ocean and also affected
many other countries, including Russia, the USA, New Zealand,
French Polynesia and Chile, demonstrating once again the terrible
threat that tsunami waves pose for Pacific countries and the need
for basin-wide international scientific collaboration. Following a
brief introduction, this volume presents 21 scientific papers,
including 12 on aspects of the 2011 Tohoku event. A first group of
papers provides detailed field survey results from the coasts of
Japan and Russia and examines the wave dynamics on the basis of
these surveys, the source mechanism of the earthquake, and the
far-field impacts of the Tohoku tsunami. The second group reports
on the 2012 tsunamis in El Salvador, the Philippines, off the east
coast of Honshu and the landmark Haida Gwaii event off the west
coast of British Columbia, Canada, while the papers in a third set
discuss a number of remaining challenging questions in tsunami
science and warning. The volume will be of interest to scientists
and practitioners involved in all aspects of tsunamis from
earthquake source processes to transoceanic wave propagation and
coastal impacts. Postgraduate students in geophysics, oceanography
and coastal engineering - as well as those in the broader
geosciences, civil and environmental engineering - will also find
the book a valuable resource, as it combines recent case studies
with the latest advances in tsunami science and natural hazards
mitigation.
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