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Book Field Survey of the Tsunamis of 28 March 1964 in Alaska

Download or read book Field Survey of the Tsunamis of 28 March 1964 in Alaska written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tsunamis

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  • Author : Eddie N. Bernard
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780674031739
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Tsunamis written by Eddie N. Bernard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's foremost experts write about the dynamics of geophysical processes involved in tsunami generation, propagation, and inundation, along with the statistical and geophysical properties of tsunami recurrence, and their application to tsunami forecasts and warnings.

Book Tsunamis

Download or read book Tsunamis written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tsunamis Affecting Alaska  1737 1996

Download or read book Tsunamis Affecting Alaska 1737 1996 written by James F. Lander and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalog describes all known tsunamis that have affected Alaska in historic times. Alaska has a complex tsunami history due to the varied tectonic regimes, its history of colonization by the Russians and Americans, and its geography of many isolated bays and islands. It is the one area of the U.S. which produces tsunamis capable of causing damage at far removed locations in the Pacific, including those most destructive to Hawaii and the U.S. west coast. Marigrams for Alaskan tsunamis. Tsunami travel time charts for Alaska. Extensive references. Place name index.

Book Special Report   Coastal Engineering Research Center

Download or read book Special Report Coastal Engineering Research Center written by Coastal Engineering Research Center (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964

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  • Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Alaska Earthquake
  • Publisher : National Academies
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 584 pages

Download or read book The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964 written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Alaska Earthquake and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1968 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prince William Sound  Alaskan Earthquakes  March April 1964

Download or read book Prince William Sound Alaskan Earthquakes March April 1964 written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contribution

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  • Author : Hawaii Institute of Geophysics
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 798 pages

Download or read book Contribution written by Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Source Mechanism Study of the Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami of 27 March 1964

Download or read book Source Mechanism Study of the Alaska Earthquake and Tsunami of 27 March 1964 written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The geologic history and a short description of the general geomorphology of the area affected by the 27 March 1964 Alaska earthquake are given. The extent of crustal displacement and the limits of the areas of subsidence and uplift as revealed by geologic evidence are discussed, as well as the method by which the tsunamigenerating area was determined. The dimensions of this tsunami-generating area, its volume of crustal displacement, and the energy associated with the tsunami are calculated. There follows a short discussion on wave activity within and outside the generating area, and the possible generating mechanisms for the tsunami. Included as an appendix are two wave refraction diagrams of the Alaska tsunami drawn for the north Pacific Ocean area. The source mechanism of the Alaska Earthquake of 27 Mar 1964 was investigated by analyzing the Rayleigh wave recorded on the strain seismograph at Kipapa Station, Hawaii. The parameters that gave the best fit to the observed data were: rupture length of 800 km, rupture velocity of 3 km/sec, and direction of rupture line of S30 deg W. The results of this analysis compared favorably with field data of elevation changes, with distribution of epicenters of aftershocks, and with the area of generation of the tsunami as obtained from sea wave refraction diagrams. (Author).

Book The Tsunami of the Alaskan Earthquake  1964

Download or read book The Tsunami of the Alaskan Earthquake 1964 written by Basil Wrigley Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this study is to evaluate the tsunami of Good Friday196k. The evaluation is directed to an engineering view of the causes,effects, and future protective measures. A secondary purpose is to evaluate the oceanographic and geophysical nature of tsunami generation.Based on the literature of earlier investigators and on field investigation by the authors, the study gives a picture of what occurred.Analyses by the authors also suggest an explanation of how it occurred.Started nearly two years after the event, the study had the advantage of collecting data from a great number of sources - sources that would not have been available much closer to the event. A disadvantage was that vital engineering evidence concerning structural damage was lost during cleanup and reconstruction.Nature of the earth dislocation is described and related to the generation, propagation, and dispersion of the main tsunami waves. Itis inferred that this earthquake (as perhaps many great earthquakes) was triggered by the lunisolar forces on the earth's crust at syzygy and by the moment-arm forces of local spring tide differentials. The complex tectonic movements may, for simplification, be imagined as a gigantic wave-paddle that pushed an initial wave 10 to 20 meters high along a front of 650 kilometers. Propagation of this enormous wave is followed-to Canada, Washington, Oregon, and California, to Hawaii, Russia, Japan,and New Zealand, even to Tierra del Fuego and Antarctica.Detailed studies of the main tsunami and local seismic sea waves are given for damaged areas in Alaska, especially those in Prince William Sound. Similar studies are presented for a'"as in Canada, Washington,Oregon and California. In addition to the wave analysis for each place,an engineering evaluation is presented for severely damaged areas.Included are marigrams of component waves and oscillations for manyplaces reached by the tsunami, based on a subjective analysis of tide gage records. These analyses relate the tsunami waves to local bay andshelf oscill ations, and to the local tides"--Page iii.

Book The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964  Oceanography and costal engineering

Download or read book The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964 Oceanography and costal engineering written by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Alaska Earthquake and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tsunamis  Seiches  and Landslide induced Water Waves

Download or read book Tsunamis Seiches and Landslide induced Water Waves written by James Robert Houston and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tsunami of March 28  1964  as Recorded at Tide Stations

Download or read book The Tsunami of March 28 1964 as Recorded at Tide Stations written by Mark G. Spaeth and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Water Resources Center Archives  University of California  Berkeley

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Water Resources Center Archives University of California Berkeley written by Water Resources Center Archives (Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Numerical Studies of Tectonic and Landslide generated Tsunamis Caused by the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake

Download or read book Numerical Studies of Tectonic and Landslide generated Tsunamis Caused by the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake written by E. N. Suleimani and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of my thesis is on the complex source mechanism of tsunami waves generated by the Mw9.2 1964 Alaska earthquake, the largest instrumentally recorded earthquake in North America. The vertical seafloor displacements produced a trans-Pacific tectonic tsunami that caused loss of life and great damage in Alaska and the west coast of the United States and Canada. In addition to the major tectonic wave, about 20 local tsunamis were generated by submarine mass failures in a number of bays and fjords in south-central Alaska. These locally generated waves caused most of the damage and accounted for 76% of tsunami fatalities. I use numerical modeling to study tectonic and landslide tsunamis of the 1964 earthquake. The first part of the thesis presents numerical analysis of tsunami inundation at Seward and other locations in Resurrection Bay caused by the combined impact of landslide-generated waves and the tectonic tsunami. This study utilizes the recent geological findings of large-scale submarine slope failures in the bay during the 1964 earthquake and confirms the hypothesis that tsunami waves observed in Seward during and immediately after the earthquake resulted from multiple underwater landslides. The analysis of the simulated composite inundation area caused by the two different tsunami sources explains their relative contributions and demonstrates good agreement with observations. The second major topic is the source of the 1964 tectonic tsunami. The results of inundation modeling in Kodiak Island show that tsunami runup in the near field strongly depends on coseismic slip in the Kodiak asperity. I test the hypothesis that splay faults played a major role in tsunami generation and evaluate the extent of the Patton Bay fault using near-field tsunami observations. The new source function of the 1964 tsunami is presented, which includes the effects of the splay fault displacements and the component of the vertical deformation of the sea surface due to horizontal displacements on the megathrust. The results of numerical modeling studies included in this thesis complement the Alaska Tsunami Inundation Mapping Project. This activity provides emergency officials in coastal Alaska with tsunami hazard assessment tools and helps mitigate future tsunami risk.