Every year that passes without a tsunami means that we're just that
much closer to our next one. What can we do to ensure we're
prepared when the next catastrophic tsunami strikes? The ferocious
waves of a tsunami can travel across oceans at the speed of a jet
airplane. They can kill families, destroy entire cultures, and even
gut nations. To understand these beasts in our waters well enough
to survive them, we must understand how they're created and learn
from the past. In this book, tsunami specialists James Goff and
Walter Dudley arm readers with everything they need to survive a
tsunami - and maybe even avoid the next one. The book takes readers
on a historical journey through some of the most devastating
tsunamis in human history, some of the quirky ones, and even some
that may not even be what most of us think of as tsunamis. Diving
into personal and scientific stories of disasters,Tsunami pulls
readers into the many ways these waves can be generated, ranging
from earthquakes and volcanic eruptions to explosions, landslides,
and beyond. The book provides overviews of some of the great
historical events - the 1755 Lisbon, 1946 Aleutian, 1960 Chile, and
2004 Indian Ocean tsunamis, but also some of the less well-known as
well such as the 1958 Lituya Bay, 563 CE Lake Geneva, a 6,000 year
old Papua New Guinean mystery, and even a 2.5 Million year old
asteroid. This is not straight science, though. Each event is
brought to life in a variety of ways through stories of survival,
human folly, and echoes of past disasters etched in oral traditions
and the environment. The book combines research from oceanography,
biogeography, geology, history, archaeology and more, with data
collected from over 400 survivor interviews. Alongside carefully
selected images and the scientific measurements of these tsunamis,
the book offers tales of survival, heroism, and tragic loss.
Through a balanced combination of personal experience, the Earth's
changing environment, tales of tragedy, and a recount of oral
traditions, Tsunami allows readers to engage with a new scientific
approach to these overwhelming waves. The resulting book unveils
the science of disaster like never before.
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