Tsunami : the underrated hazard / Edward Bryant
- Bib ID:
- 4549644
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bryant, Edward, 1948-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- Berlin, Germany : Springer ; Chichester, England : Praxis, c2008
- xxxiv, 330 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, graphs ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9783540742739
- Series:
- Springer-Praxis books in geophysical sciences
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: PART I Tsunami as a known hazard 1
- I Introduction 3
- Introduction 3
- F ive stories 4
- 1 An Aboriginal legend 4
- 2 The Kwenaitchechat Legend, Pacific Northwest 5
- 3 Krakatau, August 27, 1883 6
- 4 Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland, November 18, 1929 7
- 5 Papua New Guinea, July 17, 1998 9
- Scientific fact or legends? 10
- Causes of tsunami 12
- Distribution and fatalities 14
- M editerranean Sea 15
- Caribbean Sea 15
- Pacific Ocean Region (including Indonesia) 16
- New Zealand and Australia 22
- Bays, fjords, inland seas, and lakes. 23
- Meteorological phenomena, freak waves, and storm surges 24
- 2 Tsunami dynamics 27
- Introduction 27
- Tsunami characteristics 27
- Tsunami wave theory 31
- Resonance 36
- Shallow-water, long-wave theory 37
- Run-up and inundation 40
- Run-up 40
- Inland penetration 45
- Depth and velocity at shore. 46
- PART II Tsunami-formed landscapes 49
- 3 Signatures of tsunami in the coastal landscape 51
- Introduction 51
- Depositional signatures of tsunami 53
- Buried sand or anomalous sediment layers 53
- Foraminifera and diatoms 57
- Boulder floaters in sand 59
- Dump deposits 60
- Mounds and ridges 63
- Chevrons and dune bedforms 65
- Sm ear deposits 67
- Large boulders and piles of imbricated boulders 68
- Turbidites 75
- Erosional signatures of tsunami 77
- Small-scale features 77
- Large-scale features 83
- Flow dynamics 86
- 4 Coastal landscape evolution 91
- Introduction 91
- Catastrophism vs. uniformitarianism 91
- Tsunami vs. storms 94
- The nature of tsunami vs. storm deposits 95
- Movement of boulders 96
- Types of coastal landscapes created by tsunami 98
- Sandy barrier coasts 98
- Deltas and alluvial plains 101
- Rocky coasts 103
- Atolls 104
- Examples of tsunami-generated landscapes: Australia 106
- South coast of New South Wales 106
- Cairns Coast, Northeast Queensland 109
- Northwest West Australia 112
- Other examples of tsunami-generated landscapes 115
- Grand Cayman 115
- Bahamas 117
- Chilean coast 119
- PART III Causes of tsunami 125
- 5 Earthquake-generated tsunami 127
- Introduction 127
- Seism ic waves 127
- Magnitude scales for earthquakes and tsunami 129
- Earthquake magnitude scales 129
- Tsunami earthquakes 130
- Tsunami magnitude scales 132
- Seismic gaps and tsunami occurrence 134
- Relationships between earthquakes and tsunami 135
- How earthquakes generate tsunami 135
- Linking tsunami run-up to earthquake magnitude 139
- Large historical tsunamigenic earthquakes 140
- Lisbon, November 1, 1755 140
- Chile, May 22, 1960 143
- Alaska, March 27, 1964 149
- Events of the 1990s 154
- Slow Nicaraguan tsunami earthquake of September 2, 1992. 156
- Flores, December 12, 1992 158
- The Hokkaido Nansei-Oki tsunami of July 12, 1993 160
- Papua New Guinea, July 17, 1998 163
- The Indian Ocean tsunami, December 26, 2004 167
- 6 Great landslides 179
- Introduction 179
- Causes of submarine landslides 181
- How submarine landslides generate tsunami 184
- Historical tsunami attributable to landslides 186
- The Lituya Bay landslide of July 9, 1958 187
- Grand Banks tsunami, November 18, 1929 189
- Geological events 193
- Hawaiian landslides 193
- The Canary Islands 196
- The Storegga slide of 7950 Bp 198
- Bristol Channel, U.K., January 30, 1607 205
- The risk in the world's oceans 213
- Other volcanic islands 213
- Other topography 215
- 7 Volcanic eruptions 217
- Introduction 217
- Causes of volcano-induced tsunami 217
- Krakatau, August 26-27, 1883 222
- Santorini, around 1470 ac 225
- 8 Comets and asteroids 231
- Introduction 231
- Near Earth objects (NEOs) 231
- W hat are they? 231
- How frequent have comet and asteroid impacts been? 234
- How do extraterrestrial objects generate tsunami? 236
- Mechanisms for generating tsunami. 236
- Size of tsunami 238
- Geological events 245
- Hypothesized frequency 245
- Chicxulub, the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) extinction event 247
- Other events 251
- Deluge Comet impact event 8,200 ł 200 years ago 251
- The Mahuika Comet impact event and eastern Australia 253
- Geological evidence for mega-tsunami 254
- Maori legends supporting a cosmogenic event 257
- Aboriginal legends supporting a cosmogenic event 258
- Timing of Mahuika 260
- Events in the Kimberley, Western Australia 263
- Legends supporting cosmogenic tsunami 263
- Field evidence 266
- A
- PART IV Modern risk of tsunami 271
- 9 Risk and avoidance 273
- Inltrduction 273
- \VWhat locations along a coast are at risk from tsunami? 277
- \Varning systems 280
- The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center 280
- Flaws in regional warning systems 285
- Localized tsunami warning systems 286
- Ho\\ !ong have you got? .9 290
- \Vhere should you go if there is a tsunami warning'? 291
- What if it is an asteroid or comet'? 294
- Is it all that bad? The case of Sydney 295.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-324) and index.
- Subject:
- Tsunamis
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