Tsunami and its Hazards in the Indian and Pacific Oceans (eBook)

Contents 5
Tsunami and its Hazard in the Indian and Pacific Oceans: Introduction 7
The 26 December 2004 Sumatra Tsunami: Analysis of Tide Gauge Data from the World Ocean Part 1. Indian Ocean and South Africa 18
Quantification of Hydrophone Records of the 2004 Sumatra Tsunami 66
Seismic Records of the 2004 Sumatra and Other Tsunamis: A Quantitative Study 81
MTSU : Recovering Seismic Moments from Tsunameter Records 110
The Tsunami of 26 December, 2004: Numerical Modeling and Energy Considerations 134
Field Survey of Tsunami Effects in Sri Lanka due to the Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of December 26, 2004 149
Field Signatures of the SE-Asian Mega-Tsunami along the West Coast of Thailand Compared to Holocene Paleo-Tsunami from the Atlantic Region 166
Eyewitness Accounts of the Impact of the 1998 Aitape Tsunami, and of Other Tsunamis in Living Memory, in the Region from Jayapura, Indonesia, to Vanimo, Papua New Guinea 185
Phases Representing Source Lengths of Tsunami in Tide Gauge Records 205
Numerical Simulations of Tsunami Waves and Currents for Southern Vancouver Island from a Cascadia Megathrust Earthquake 216
Overview of Holocene Tsunami Deposits along the Nankai, Suruga, and Sagami Troughs, Southwest Japan 244
Micromorphological Analysis of Coastal Sediments from Willapa Bay, Washington, USA: A Technique for Analysing Inferred Tsunami Deposits 259
Volcanogenic Tsunamis in Lakes: Examples from Nicaragua and General Implications 276
Estimation of Tsunami Hazard in New Zealand due to South American Earthquakes 295
Tsunami Assessment for Risk Management at Nuclear Power Facilities in Japan 313
Logic-tree Approach for Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Analysis and its Applications to the Japanese Coasts 325
Conditional Probability Approach of the Assessment of Tsunami Potential: Application in Three Tsunamigenic Regions of the Pacific Ocean 341
Steps Towards the Implementation of a Tsunami Detection, Warning, Mitigation and Preparedness Program for Southwestern Coastal Areas of Mexico 352
A Study of Tsunami Wave Fission in an Undistorted Experiment 364