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The Orphan Tsunami of 1700
Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America
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2005
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-98535-0 (ISBN)
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-98535-0 (ISBN)
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Traces an earthquake off the Northwest coast that spawned a massive tsunami that reached Japan in 1700. This work tells of a catastrophe, a century before Lewis and Clark's expedition that guides preparations for future earthquakes and tsunamis, in the North Pacific. It explains the creation, action and lasting effects of earthquakes and tsunamis.
A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted having felt no earthquake; they wondered what had set off the waves but had no way of knowing that the tsunami was spawned during an earthquake along the coast of northwestern North America. This orphan tsunami would not be linked to its parent earthquake until the mid-twentieth century, through an extraordinary series of discoveries in both North America and Japan. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700, now in its second edition, tells this scientific detective story through its North American and Japanese clues. The story underpins many of today's precautions against earthquake and tsunami hazards in the Cascadia region of northwestern North America. The Japanese tsunami of March 2011 called attention to these hazards as a mirror image of the transpacific waves of January 1700. Hear Brian Atwater on NPR with Renee Montagne http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4629401 Replaced by ISBN 9780295998084
A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted having felt no earthquake; they wondered what had set off the waves but had no way of knowing that the tsunami was spawned during an earthquake along the coast of northwestern North America. This orphan tsunami would not be linked to its parent earthquake until the mid-twentieth century, through an extraordinary series of discoveries in both North America and Japan. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700, now in its second edition, tells this scientific detective story through its North American and Japanese clues. The story underpins many of today's precautions against earthquake and tsunami hazards in the Cascadia region of northwestern North America. The Japanese tsunami of March 2011 called attention to these hazards as a mirror image of the transpacific waves of January 1700. Hear Brian Atwater on NPR with Renee Montagne http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4629401 Replaced by ISBN 9780295998084
Brian F. Atwater, Musumi-Rokkaku Satoko, Satake Kenji, Tsuji Yoshinobu, Ueda Kazue, and David K. Yamaguchi pooled their backgrounds in geology, geophysics, forestry, history, and language.
Introduction1. Unearthed earthquakes2. The orphan tsunami--Kuwagasaki--Tsugaruishi--Otsuchi--Nakaminato--Miho--Tanabe3. The orphan's parentAcknowledgmentsAuthorsReferencesIndex
Reihe/Serie | Professional Paper 1707 S. |
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Zusatzinfo | 325 illus., 280 in color |
Verlagsort | Seattle |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 216 x 280 mm |
Gewicht | 522 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-295-98535-6 / 0295985356 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-295-98535-0 / 9780295985350 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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