Tsunami

The Underrated Hazard

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Buch | Hardcover
XXXIV, 330 Seiten
2007 | 2nd ed. 2008
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-74273-9 (ISBN)

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Tsunamis are underrated as major hazards, mainly due to the misconceptions that they occur infrequently and happen along some distant shoreline. However, evidence for past great tsunami has recently been discovered along apparently aseismic and protected coastlines, such as those of Australia and Western Europe. This is a comprehensive and well illustrated textbook on all aspects of tsunami. It can be used by a student or layperson to gain encyclopedic knowledge about tsunami.

Dr Edward Bryant is a renowned and respected tsunami researcher, writer and teacher in the areas of natural hazards and climatology. Tsunami: The Underrated Hazard was first published by Cambridge University Press in 2001. This is now out of print and CUP confirmed that all rights in the book have reverted to the author. The 2nd Edition incorporates the great Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and the author focuses on geomorphology and the processes and events linked to the main causes of tsunami, namely, earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and, in addition, comet and meteorite impacts.

Tsunami as a known hazard.- Tsunami dynamics.- Tsunami-formed landscapes.- Signatures of tsunami in the coastal landscape.- Coastal landscape evolution.- Causes of tsunami.- Earthquake-generated tsunami.- Great landslides.- Volcanic eruptions.- Comets and asteroids.- Modern risk of tsunami.- Risk and avoidance.- Epilogue.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.12.2007
Reihe/Serie Geophysical Sciences
Springer Praxis Books
Zusatzinfo XXXIV, 330 p. 58 illus., 6 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Berlin
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 242 mm
Gewicht 984 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geologie
Schlagworte coast • Coastal attrition • Earthquake • Hazard • Indian Ocean • Marine • natural disaster • ocean • Oceanography • Pacific Ocean • Tsunami
ISBN-10 3-540-74273-5 / 3540742735
ISBN-13 978-3-540-74273-9 / 9783540742739
Zustand Neuware
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