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Make informed life decisions with TSUNAMI: THE GREAT WAVE! Designed to teach you about the dynamic Earth processes that affect your life, this text provides you with an introduction to the causes and effects of tsunamis so that you can make educated choices about major life decisions such as where to live or where to build a house. Coverage includes case studies and examples such as the Sumatra Tsunami of 2004, Anchorage, AK, the Chile Tsunami, Lituya Bay, and Hokkaida, Japan. ... Read more

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Authentic tsunami sediments collected from apreviously empty bottle and several coastallocalities were identified as brownish silty finesand with a characteristic grain size distributionand an assemblage of planktonic and benthicmicrofossils. e.g forams. Influenced by referencesin Sri Lankan ancient texts to occurrences oftsunamis a search was undertaken for paleotsunamisediments in selected coastal villages of Peraliyaand Denuwala. In boreholes and well cuttings ofsuch locations we recognize two paleotsunamihorizons at 30 and 75 cm respectively below thepresent ground surface each consisting of brownishsilty fine sand with microfossils that remarkablyresembled those found in the recently depositeduncontaminated tsunami sediment. The 14C dating ofdifferent tsunami sediments gave anomalous ages.However their C/N ratios indicated marine origins.The book highlights diagnostic criteria to identifyauthentic past and recent tsunami sediments anddiscusses the challenges of 14C dating tsunamisediments. It is a landmark publication of interestto geologists, paleontologists, archaeologists andin modeling and dating tsunamis ... Read more

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Le tsunami de l?océan Indien a marqué les esprits, pourtant plusieurs autres raz-de-marée ont sévi à travers le monde ces dernières années. Ces derniers provoquant parfois de nombreuses pertes humaines et de nombreux dégâts. Si les systèmes d?alertes au tsunami assurent une surveillance vigilante des océans, les risques sont toujours présents. Ce livre offre des informations sur le phénomène des tsunamis tout en revenant sur les différents raz-de-marée qui se sont abattus à travers le monde. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Presbyterian Record, published by Presbyterian Record on September 1, 2008. The length of the article is 472 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Conference evaluates lessons learned.(Tsunami Response)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Presbyterian Record (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2008
Publisher: Presbyterian Record
Volume: 132Issue: 8Page: 30(1)

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This digital document is a journal article from Marine and Petroleum Geology, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Tsunami generation by submarine slides have been a major concern in the risk assessment for the Ormen Lange gas field off Western Norway. Tsunamis are analysed with a numerical model supplemented by an analytical one. Both models show how slide extensions and slide dynamics influence the tsunamigenic potential for a large region. Several combinations of slide parameters were tested, and the product of initial acceleration and the volume of the slide gave the best correlation with the maximum surface elevation for the near coastal domain. ... Read more

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This volume contains descriptions of about 300 tsunami and ofsimilar known phenomena in the Mediterranean Sea. Earthquakes andother processes generating tsunami are also described. The intensityof tsunami waves is estimated, and the causes of tsunami generationare given together with the reliability of the information. Theliterary data are given on coordinates and magnitudes of tsunamigenicearthquakes. 18 zones of tsunami generation are identified, which havebeen subdivided into four groups according to the maximum intensityand periodicity. Audience: The book should be of interest to seismologists,oceanographers, volcanologists, geographers, and specialistsinvestigating natural hazards and their consequences. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paleotempestology is the study of past tropical cyclone activity by means of geological proxies as well as historical documentary records. The term was coined by Kerry Emanuel.Examples of proxies include overwash deposits preserved in the sediments of coastal lakes and marshes, microfossils such as foraminifera, pollen, diatoms, dinoflagellates, phytoliths contained in coastal sediments, wave-generated or flood-generated sedimentary structures or deposits (called tempestites) in marine or lagoonal sediments, storm wave deposited coral shingle, shell, sand and shell and pure sand shore parallel ridges. ... Read more

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In the past decade over ten major tsunami events have impacted on the world's coastlines, causing devastation and loss of life. Evidence for past great tsunami, or 'mega-tsunami', has also recently been discovered along apparently aseismic and protected coastlines. With a large proportion of the world's population living on the coastline, the threat from tsunami can not be ignored. This book comprehensively describes the nature and process of tsunami, outlines field evidence for detecting the presence of past events, and describes particular events linked to earthquakes, volcanoes, submarine landslides and meteorite impacts. While technical aspects are covered, much of the text can be read by anyone with a high school education. The book will appeal to students and researchers in geomorphology, earth and environmental science, and emergency planning, and will also be attractive for the general public interested in natural hazards and new developments in science. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Time for a New Edition
I purchased this book in 2004 for it's original retail price of US$27.95. Now I see used copies selling for more than $300 on amazon.com. This book is a terrific analysis of what we now know, as the sub-title 'The Underrated Hazard' suggests, an extraordinarily prescient work outlining the causes and historical occurences of one of the earth's more destructive natural phenomenon, tsunamis.

Please, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, encourage Mr. Bryant to update this extraordinarily informative book with an analyse of the earthquake and tsunami of December 26, 2004.

A Good Read on the Subject But Fairly Technical
In a lot of science books written for the general reader, the complaint is that the material is sensationalistic and over-simplified.Edward Bryant almost errs in the other direction.His evidence that very large Tsunami have played a key role in shaping many coastal regions is extremely well-presented and will contain lots of new information for even dedicated followers of Earth Science news.

On the other hand, while reading information about landscapes re-arranged by truly massive "mega-tsunami," one sometimes longs for livelier prose.The book may also be something of a slog now and then for people with no background in Earth Science.

I would recommend this book highly to anyone with a serious interest in the subject, and certainly to anyone who needs to consider tsunami from a policy-making point of view. ... Read more

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Proceedings of the International Workshop held in Friday Harbor, U.S.A. from September 12-17, 1995. ... Read more

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The outside world scarcely knew of northwestern North America in the year 1700. The Pacific coast, from southcentral Alaska to Oregon's Cape Blanco, was uncharted until the Spanish and English explorations of the 1770s. Yet, when tectonic plates suddenly shifted there in 1700, a train of ocean waves -- a tsunami -- sped across the Pacific Ocean. When the waves came ashore in Japan, they flooded fields and washed away houses. Samurai, merchants, and villagers recorded the mysterious event, but they observed no storm and felt no parent earthquake. In Japan, this tsunami was an orphan.

The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 tells this transpacific detective story by presenting its primary sources, Japanese documents and North American sediments and tree rings. They tell of a catastrophe a century before Lewis and Clark's expedition that now guides preparations for future earthquakes and tsunamis in the North Pacific.

A rich array of graphic detail and narrative explains the creation, action, and lasting effects of earthquakes and tsunamis. ... Read more

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Understanding Cascadia Earthquake Potential
As a professional consulting geologist, I found this book to be the single best source to recommend to others (and sometimes give to clients) to explain the relevant details of the last great Cascadia subduction zone earthquake and, by extension, the potential for the next.The book contains magnificent diagrams and photographs, is highly readable, and is affordable.It is an easy book to skim through, an easy book to pick-up and put-down and pick-up again, and it is a wonderful book to re-read.I recommend it to anyone over about 13 who wants to know more about the Pacific Northwest's most recent great earthquake and its aftermath.

Fascinating detective work eccentrically presented
On January 26, 1700, a tsunami struck eastern Japan. Because they had experienced no preceding earthquake to explain the wave, contemporary Japanese writers recorded the event as an "orphan tsunami." Almost three centuries later, scientists in the western United States and Canada uncovered evidence of a massive earthquake (more or less a 9 on the modern scale) having occurred here at about that same time. This book presents the evidence for naming that quake the "parent" of the orphan tsunami, and also draws some conclusions about what an earthquake of that size might mean for 21st-century Cascadia.

There's an awful lot packed into this small book, and it's a fine example of how earth sciences, history, and other disciplines can work together to break new ground (so to speak) in our understanding of the past. But the way it's all presented in these pages? Oy. It kind of reminded me of the stereotypical mad scientist: you know he's a genius, but as he rushes around his lab, talking really quickly, pulling up charts and graphs and drawing on the chalkboard to prove his theories, all you can think is, "this guy is nuts."

In this case, the authors and their layout artists really went wild. From beginning to end, the book is a riot of old maps and new photos, illustrations, excerpts from Japanese and American diaries and records, line-by-line translations of Japanese reports, different-colored text blocks for sidebar articles, big two-paragraph-long photo captions, little illustrations of tectonic forces at work, screenshots from computer programs, and a lot more, all jumbled together. Although the information is interesting, I found sorting out the visual presentation tiring at times. Moreover, each two-page spread is like its own mini-chapter, with its own headline and point it's attempting to make. It is an innovative way to present scientific information (at least, I can't think of any book quite like it), but I'm not sure the method is quite perfected yet.

Still, I'm a non-scientist and I found it worth the effort to read this. And as someone living in the Cascadian earthquake region, it had more than a little personal relevance too.

A welcome addition to any collection
This depiction of an orphan tsunami that battered the eastern coast of Japan in 1700 combines colorful imagery with scientific research to infer an account of what happened three hundred years ago.Japanese and American diaries, oral traditions, and ancient maps are combined with more recent photographs, figures and statistical data to support geological evidence found both in North America and Japan.The conclusion reveals an earthquake in the Cascadia Range of North America (estimated magnitude= 8.7 - 9.2) that generated waves which destroyed homes and caused a shipwreck and flooding over 7,000 kilometers away.The book features a table of contents in English and Japanese, author biographies, references, an index, and interpretations of Japanese language and writings used during the research.The artistry of the publication compliments the contents, and anyone with a curiosity for the earth sciences, global history, or cross-cultural studies will be intrigued by this portrayal of a significant natural disaster. ... Read more

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This volume is the outcome of about 30 years of research in the field of earthquake seismology in various parts of South Asia. It comprehensively deals with topics raning from plate tectonics to seismic waves in general. State-of-the-art techniques in earthquake location/relocation, fault plane solution, waveform inversion, seismic tomography, fractals etc. are discussed, and the results are interpreted in terms of seismic source processes in the region.

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In the millennium a geological event sets the stage for North America's worst disaster since the Ice Age. Only two scientists are gifted enough to save millions. ... Read more

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Another inferior geological thriller
While not the worst book I ever read, this one comes close.The author, Earl Blinkhorn, does not have a good grasp of grammar, and apparently no editor or even literate friend provided him with any assistance.The very first sentence sets the ungrammatical tone: "Loren and Paul were just recounting when their adventure that began those many years ago now."It does not improve. Another large problem is his use of earthquake and volcanism data.He just dumps it into the text instead of integrating it.It is frequently unclear what relationship the geologic factoids are intended to have to the plot.He also needlessly repeats the data dumps.On dialogue he does do a better job than some, notably he handles it better than David Golemon did in Ancients, another geological thriller.The plot itself is ungainly with a supreme naiveté about government agencies and how they operate.
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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 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Earthquakes in Greece, 365 Crete Earthquake, 226 Bc Rhodes Earthquake, 1999 Athens Earthquake, 426 Bc Maliakos Gulf Tsunami, 464 Bc Sparta Earthquake, 2008 Peloponnese Earthquake, 2008 Dodecanese Earthquake, 2006 Southern Greece Earthquake, 1953 Ionian Earthquake, Verd Antique. Excerpt: The 365 AD Crete earthquake was an undersea earthquake that occurred at about sunrise on 21 July 365 AD in the Eastern Mediterranean, with an assumed epicentre near Crete. Geologists today estimate the quake to have been 8 on the Richter Scale or higher, causing widespread destruction in central and southern Greece, northern Libya, Egypt, Cyprus, and Sicily. In Crete, nearly all towns were destroyed. The Crete earthquake was followed by a tsunami which devastated the eastern coasts of the Mediterranean, particularly Alexandria and the Nile Delta, killing thousands and hurling ships nearly two miles inland. The quake left a deep impression on the late antique mind, and numerous writers of the time referred in their works to the event. CreteRecent geological studies view the 365 AD Crete earthquake in connection with a clustering of major seismic activity in the eastern Mediterranean between the 4th century and the 6th century AD which may have reflected a reactivation of all major plate boundaries in the region. The earthquake is thought to be responsible for an uplift of 9 m of the island of Crete, which is estimated to correspond to a seismic moment of ~10^29 dyne cm. An earthquake of such a size exceeds all modern ones known to have affected the region. However, a recent reassessment of radiocarbon data indicates that the uplift most probably took place at a later date. Researchers at the University of Cambridge recently carbon dated corals on the coast o... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15798189 ... Read more

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Highlights the recent advances made toward quantifying and understanding the role of shallow plate coupling in the earthquake generation process.Softcover. ... Read more