Buildings: Simple, Economical House Design to Resist Future Tsunamis
Symposium Highlights Finding from Investigations of Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami
NewsBriefs: Engineer Database Established For Tsunami Aid (Engineers Without Borders — International)
NewsBriefs: Seawall Protects City From Tsunami (BBC News)
NewsBriefs: Tsunami Exposes Waste Dumped Along Somalian Coast (British Broadcasting Corporation)
Tsunami Threat Mapped along Southern California Coast
Oregon State Expanding Tsunami Lab
Characteristics of Giant Freak Waves Observed in the Sea of Japan
Evaluating the Tsunami Risk in California
Understanding of Urban Hazards, Fire, and Tsunamis
Water in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
Deepwater Waves and Tsunami Produced by the Impacts of Small Asteroids
Studies of ocean sediments may be used to determine when coastal areas have been hit by tsunamis in the past. Tsunami debris has been found to be associated with the Cretaceous-Tertiary...
Opening Remarks by Robert L. Wiegel
The Cape Mendocino Earthquake: A Local Tsunami Wakeup Call?
Sudden displacement of the seafloor due to fault offset or submarine slumping can generate tsunami waves that can travel vast distances across open ocean and damage coastal communities....
Numerical Model for Tsunami Run-Up
Originally published in: Journal of the Waterways, Harbors and Coastal Engineering Division, ASCE, WW3, August 1970, pp. 701-719...
Review of Tsunamis Risk in the Coastal Area of Region VIII (Chile): Prevention Planning
Tsunami—Preparing for a Vague and Rare Event
A tsunami (tidal wave) to an earth scientist is a vague event - to others, it is a Hollywood enhanced and misunderstood event. These attitudes are heightened by the fact that tsunamis...
Tsunami Predictions for the Coast of Alaska
The 100- and 500-year combined tsunami and tide elevations are predicted along the southern coast of Alaska. Because there is little historical data of tsunami occurrence in the area,...
Evaluation of Tsunami Risk at the Southwest Coast of the Iberian Peninsula
The southwest coast of the Iberian Peninsula has a long history of being affected by tsunami waves. The tsunami risk analysis carried out for this area included the compilation of a catalog...
Tsunamis on the Pacific Coast of the United States
The vulnerability of the Pacific coastal areas to tsunamis is examined. The effects of previous tsunamis generated off the west coast of the United States (local tsunamis) and of remote...
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