Author:
Bryant, Edward, 1948-
Edition Statement:2nd ed.
Imprint:Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, UK : Published in association with Praxis, c2008.
Descriptionix, 330 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Note:PART I Tsunami as a known hazard -- Introduction -- Introduction -- Five stories -- An Aboriginal legend -- The Kwenaitchechat Legend, Pacific Northwest -- Krakatau, August 27, 1883 -- Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland, November 18, 1929 -- Papua New Guinea, July 17, 1998 -- Scientific fact or legends? -- Causes of tsunami -- Distribution and fatalities -- M editerranean Sea -- Caribbean Sea -- Pacific Ocean Region (including Indonesia) -- New Zealand and Australia -- Bays, fjords, inland seas, and lakes -- Meteorological phenomena, freak waves, and storm surges -- Tsunami dynamics -- Introduction -- Tsunami characteristics -- Tsunami wave theory -- Resonance -- Shallow-water, long-wave theory -- Run-up and inundation -- Run-up -- Inland penetration -- Depth and velocity at shore -- PART II Tsunami-formed landscapes -- Signatures of tsunami in the coastal landscape -- Introduction -- Depositional signatures of tsunami -- Buried sand or anomalous sediment layers -- Formaminifera and diatoms -- Boulder floaters in sand -- Dump deposits -- Mounds and ridges -- Chevrons and dune bedforms -- Smear deposits -- Large boulders and piles of imbricated boulders -- Turbidites -- Erosional signatures of tsunami -- Small-scale features -- Large-scale features -- Flow dynamics -- Coastal landscape evolution -- Introduction -- Catastrophism vs. uniformitarianism -- Tsunami vs. storms -- The nature of tsunami vs. storm deposits -- Movement of boulders -- Types of coastal landscapes created by tsunami -- Sandy barrier coasts -- Deltas and alluvial plains -- Rocky coasts -- Atolls -- Examples of tsunami-generated landscapes: Australia -- South coast of New South Wales -- Cairns Coast, Northeast Queensland -- Northwest West Australia -- Other examples of tsunami-generated landscapes -- Grand Cayman -- Bahamas -- Chilean coast --PART III Causes of tsunami -- Earthquake-generated tsunami -- Introduction -- Seismic waves -- Magnitude scales for earthquakes and tsunami -- Earthquake magnitude scales -- Tsunami earthquakes -- Tsunami magnitude scales -- Seismic gaps and tsunami occurrence -- Relationships between earthquakes and tsunami -- How earthquakes generate tsunami -- Linking tsunami run-up to earthquake magnitude .......... 139 Large historical tsunamigenic earthquakes -- Lisbon, November 1, 1755 -- Chile, May 22, 1960 -- Alaska, March 27, 1964 -- Events of the 1990s -- Slow Nicaraguan tsunami earthquake of September 2, 1992 -- Flores, December 12, 1992 -- The Hokkaido Nansei-Oki tsunami of July 12, 1993 -- Papua New Guinea, July 17, 1998 -- The Indian Ocean tsunami, December 26, 2004 -- Great landslides -- Introduction -- Causes of submarine landslides -- How submarine landslides generate tsunami -- Historical tsunami attributable to landslides -- The Lituya Bay landslide of July 9, 1958 -- Grand Banks tsunami, November 18, 1929 -- Geological events -- Hawaiian landslides -- The Canary Islands -- The Storegga slide of 7950 BP -- Bristol Channel, U.K., January 30, 1607 -- The risk in the world's oceans -- Other volcanic islands -- Other topography -- Volcanic eruptions -- Introduction -- Causes of volcano-induced tsunami -- Krakatau, August 26-27, 1883 -- Santorini, around 1470 BC -- Comets and asteroids -- Introduction -- Near Earth objects (NEOs) -- What are they? -- How frequent have comet and asteroid impacts been? -- How do extraterrestrial objects generate tsunami? -- Mechanisms for generating tsunami -- Size of tsunami -- Geological events -- Hypothesized frequency -- Chicxulub, the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) extinction event -- Other events -- Deluge Comet impact event 8,200 200 years ago -- The Mahuika Comet impact event and eastern Australia -- Geological evidence for mega-tsunami -- Maori legends supporting a cosmogenic event -- Aboriginal legends supporting a cosmogenic event -- Timing of Mahuika -- Events in the Kimberley, Western Australia -- Legends supporting cosmogenic tsunami -- Field evidence --PART IV Modern risk of tsunami -- Risk and avoidance -- Introduction -- What locations along a coast are at risk from tsunami? -- Warning systems -- The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center -- Flaws in regional warning systems -- Localized tsunami warning systems -- How !ong have you got? -- Where should you go if there is a tsunami warning' -- What if it is an asteroid or comet'? -- Is it all that bad? The case of Sydney -- Epilogue -- Five stories -- An unsuspected earthquake -- An unassuming earthquake -- A submarine landslide -- A volcanic eruption -- An astroid impact with the ocean -- Concluding comments.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-324) and index.
