Tsunamis are water waves triggered by impulsive geologic events such as sea floor deformation, landslides, slumps, subsidence, volcanic eruptions and bolide impacts. Tsunamis can inflict significant damage and casualties both nearfield and after evolving over long propagation distances and impacting distant coastlines. Tsunamis can also effect geomorphologic changes along the coast. Understanding tsunami generation and evolution is of paramount importance for protecting coastal population at risk, coastal structures and the natural environment. Accurately and reliably predicting the initial waveform and the associated coastal effects of tsunamis remains one of the most vexing problems in geophysics, and -with few exceptions- has resisted routine numerical computation or data collection solutions. While ten years ago, it was believed that the generation problem was adequately understood for useful predictions, it is now clear that it is not, especially nearfield. By contrast, the runup problem earlier believed intractable is now well understood for all but the most extreme breaking wave events.
Author(s): N. Shuto (auth.), Ahmet C. Yalçiner, Efim N. Pelinovsky, Emile Okal, Costas E. Synolakis (eds.)
Series: NATO Science Series 21
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 328
Tags: Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control; Hydrogeology; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Oceanography
Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages xxi-xxi
Tsunamis of Seismic Origin....Pages 1-8
Needs and Perspectives of Tsunami Research in Europe....Pages 9-16
Front Matter....Pages N1-N1
Identification of Slide-Generated Tsunamis in the Historical Catalogues....Pages 17-24
Updating and Revision of the European Tsunami Catalogue....Pages 25-32
Tsunami of ŞArkoy-Mürefte 1912 Earthquake: Western Marmara, Turkey....Pages 33-42
Spatial, and Temporal Periodicity in the Pacific Tsunami Occurrence....Pages 43-50
Front Matter....Pages N3-N3
Submarine Landslide Generated Waves Modeled Using Depth-Integrated Equations....Pages 51-58
Near-Field Amplitudes of Tsunami from Submarine Slumps and Slides....Pages 59-68
Numerical Modeling of Tsunami Generation by Submarine and Subaerial Landslides....Pages 69-88
Tsunami Simulation Taking Into Account Seismically Induced Dynamic Seabed Displacement, and Acoustic Effects of Water....Pages 89-99
Impulsive Tsunami Generation by Rapid Bottom Deflections at Initially Uniform Depth....Pages 101-109
Analytical Models of Tsunami Generation by Submarine Landslides....Pages 111-128
Tsunami Generation in Compressible Ocean of Variable Depth....Pages 129-137
Tsunami Wave Excitation by a Local Floor Disturbance....Pages 139-150
Effects of Tsunami at Sissano Lagoon, Papua New Guinea: Submarine-Landslide, and Tectonics Origins....Pages 151-162
Natural Gas Hydrates as a Cause of Underwater Landslides: A Review....Pages 163-169
Coastal Deformation Occurred During the August 17,1999 İzmit Earthquake....Pages 171-174
Front Matter....Pages N5-N5
A Review of Some Tsunamis in Canada....Pages 175-183
Synthetic Tsunami Simulations for the French Coasts....Pages 185-190
Inundation Modeling of the 1964 Tsunami in Kodiak Island, Alaska....Pages 191-201
Front Matter....Pages N5-N5
A Method for Mathematical Modelling of Tsunami Runup on a Shore....Pages 203-216
Evaluation of Tsunami Hazard for the Southern Kamchatka Coast Using Historical, and Paleotsunami Data....Pages 217-228
Tsunami Hazards Associated With Explosion-Collapse Processes of a Dome Complex on Minoan Thera....Pages 229-236
Possible Tsunami Deposits Discovered on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, and Some Applications....Pages 237-242
Influence of the Atmospheric Wave Velocity in the Coastal Amplification of Meteotsunamis....Pages 243-249
Impact of Surface Waves on the Coastal Ecosystems....Pages 251-258
Front Matter....Pages N7-N7
Engineering Standards for Marine Oil Terminals and Other Natural Hazard Threats....Pages 259-266
A Tsunami Mitigation Program Within the California Earthquake Loss Reduction Plan....Pages 267-276
Short-Term Inundation Forecasting for Tsunamis....Pages 277-284
Quantification of Tsunamis: A Review....Pages 285-291
Rubble Mound Breakwaters Under Tsunami Attack....Pages 293-302
Vulnerability Assessment as a Tool for Hazard Mitigation....Pages 303-313
Producing Tsunami Inundation Maps: The California Experience....Pages 315-326
Back Matter....Pages 327-328
