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A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700.
Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and
damage. Some noted having felt no earthquake; they wondered what
had set off the waves but had no way of knowing that the tsunami
was spawned during an earthquake along the coast of northwestern
North America. This orphan tsunami would not be linked to its
parent earthquake until the mid-twentieth century, through an
extraordinary series of discoveries in both North America and
Japan. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700, now in its second edition, tells
this scientific detective story through its North American and
Japanese clues. The story underpins many of today's precautions
against earthquake and tsunami hazards in the Cascadia region of
northwestern North America. The Japanese tsunami of March 2011
called attention to these hazards as a mirror image of the
transpacific waves of January 1700. Hear Brian Atwater on NPR with
Renee Montagne
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4629401
Tsunamiites: Features and Implications, Second Edition, is an
overview of the state-of-the art developments in sedimentology of
tsunami-induced and tsunami-affected deposits, namely tsunamiites.
It also highlights new problems and issues calling for additional
investigation and provides insight into the direction for future
tsunamiite research. New to this edition: discussion of the impact
of 2011 tsunami in Northern Japan as well as additional coverage of
offshore tractive current deposition and deposition of boulders.
This book is an overview of the state-of-the art developments in
sedimentology of tsunami-induced and tsunami-affected deposits,
namely tsunamiites. It also points out any problems that need
additional investigation, as well as providing insight into the
direction of future tsunamiite researches. Important
characteristics of tsunami wave and tsunami currents are explained.
There are reports on the sediments generated by recent tsunami
including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami presented. Tsunamiites
induced by other seismic activities, a submarine slump and a
volcanic eruption are investigated as well.
Several contributions in this book present new ideas concerning the
characteristic sedimentary records of tsunamis and provide the
criteria for recognizing features of various tsunamiites. The
importance of studies of bedforms of tsunamiites from various
environments is emphasized. New information is provided on
tsunami-derived boulder deposits.
The significance of studies on tsunamiites in the archeological and
geological past is also illustrated in this book. For example, the
Mediterranean homogenites, and the K/T boundary meteorite
impact-induced tsunamiites have been investigated from new aspects.
* Provides a comprehensive overview of developments in
tsunamiites
* Investigates future trends and development needs
* Cutting edge research articles from leading experts aimed at
researchers and scientists
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