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:
Download or read book State of the Art for Assessing Earthquake Hazards in the United States Report 15 Tsunamis Seiches and Landslide Induced Water Waves written by James R. Houston and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State-of-the-art methods are presented to assess the hazards of tsunamis, seiches, and landslide-induced water waves in the United States. Tsunami hazard maps for the United States are shown that display tsunami elevation zones that have a 90 percent probability of not being exceeded in a 50-year period. Methods used to determine forces exerted on structures by tsunamis are described. Hydrodynamic aspects of seiches and landslide-induced water waves are discussed, as well as methods of assessing the hazards associated with these phenomena. (Author).
Download or read book State of the art for Assessing Earthquake Hazards in the United States written by James R. Houston and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State of the art for Assessing Earthquake Hazards in the United States written by James Robert Houston and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tsunamis and Seiches written by World Book and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A discussion of major types of natural disasters, including descriptions of some of the most destructive; explanations of these phenomena, what causes them, and where they occur; and information about how to prepare for and survive these forces of nature. Features include an activity, glossary, list of resources, and index"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Submarine Landslides and Tsunamis written by Ahmet C. Yalçiner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tsunamis are water waves triggered by impulsive geologic events such as sea floor deformation, landslides, slumps, subsidence, volcanic eruptions and bolide impacts. Tsunamis can inflict significant damage and casualties both nearfield and after evolving over long propagation distances and impacting distant coastlines. Tsunamis can also effect geomorphologic changes along the coast. Understanding tsunami generation and evolution is of paramount importance for protecting coastal population at risk, coastal structures and the natural environment. Accurately and reliably predicting the initial waveform and the associated coastal effects of tsunamis remains one of the most vexing problems in geophysics, and -with few exceptions- has resisted routine numerical computation or data collection solutions. While ten years ago, it was believed that the generation problem was adequately understood for useful predictions, it is now clear that it is not, especially nearfield. By contrast, the runup problem earlier believed intractable is now well understood for all but the most extreme breaking wave events.
Download or read book State of the art for Assessing Earthquake Hazards in the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tsunami Science and Engineering II written by Valentin Heller and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquake-tsunamis, including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2011 Tōhoku Tsunami in Japan, serve as tragic reminders that such waves pose a major natural hazard. Landslide-tsunamis, including the 1958 Lituya Bay case, may exceed 150 m in height, and similar waves generated in lakes and reservoirs may overtop dams and cause significant devastation. This book includes nine peer-review articles from some of the leading experts in the field of tsunami research. The collection represents a wide range of topics covering (i) wave generation, (ii) wave propagation, and (iii) their effects. Within (i), a tsunami source combining an underwater fault rupture and a landslide are addressed in the laboratory. Within (ii), frequency dispersion with the nonlinear shallow-water equations is considered and a detailed account of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, tsunami, and fire in downtown Lisbon is presented. Two articles involve all three phases (i) to (iii), including runup and dam over-topping. Within (iii), a new semi-empirical equation for runup is introduced and the interaction of tsunamis with bridges and pipelines is investigated in large laboratory experiments. This state-of-the-art collection of articles is expected to improve modelling and mitigate the destructive effects of tsunamis and inspire many future research activities in this challenging and exciting research field.
Download or read book Tsunamis written by Christy Steele and published by Steadwell Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains what causes tsunamis, what effects they have on the environment, and how people are warned of tsunamis.
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Download or read book Physics of Tsunamis written by Boris W. Levin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition reflects significant progress in tsunami research, monitoring and mitigation within the last decade. Primarily meant to summarize the state-of-the-art knowledge on physics of tsunamis, it describes up-to-date models of tsunamis generated by a submarine earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruption, meteorite impact, and moving atmospheric pressure inhomogeneities. Models of tsunami propagation and run-up are also discussed. The book investigates methods of tsunami monitoring including coastal mareographs, deep-water pressure gauges, GPS buoys, satellite altimetry, the study of ionospheric disturbances caused by tsunamis and the study of paleotsunamis. Non-linear phenomena in tsunami source and manifestations of water compressibility are discussed in the context of their contribution to the wave amplitude and energy. The practical method of calculating the initial elevation on a water surface at a seismotectonic tsunami source is expounded. Potential and eddy traces of a tsunamigenic earthquake in the ocean are examined in terms of their applicability to tsunami warning. The first edition of this book was published in 2009. Since then, a few catastrophic events occurred, including the 2011 Tohoku tsunami, which is well known all over the world. The book is intended for researchers, students and specialists in oceanography, geophysics, seismology, hydro-acoustics, geology, and geomorphology, including the engineering and insurance industries.
Download or read book Landslide Tsunamis Recent Findings and Research Directions written by Jean-Pierre Bardet and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the disastrous tsunami which struck Papua New Guinea in 1998, this volume presents 20 state-of-the-art contributions on landslide tsunamis, including earthquake characteristics and ground motions, modeling of landslides in geotechnical engineering, field surveys on land and at sea, simulations of past, present, and potential future tsunamis, and theoretical studies of tsunami generation by landslides.
Download or read book Northern California Coastal Processes Annotated Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deadly Waves written by Mary Dodson Wade and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised series provides detailed overviews of devastating world disasters, weaving together important background information with gripping accounts from survivors and victims.
Download or read book The Science of a Tsunami written by Robin Koontz and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the science behind tsunamis. The chapters describe destructive tsunamis and their aftermath, explain why tsunamis occur, and explore scientists' efforts to predict these disasters. Diagrams, charts, and photos provide opportunities to evaluate and understand the scientific concepts involved.
Download or read book Tsunamis written by Monika Davies and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tsunami is a series of powerful sea waves that can travel as fast as a commercial jet and sweep people and even buildings away. With approachable text, fascinating sidebars, and diagrams that provide a memorable introduction to Earth science curricula, students will learn about the natural forces that cause these dangerous waves to form. Vivid photographs will keep readers captivated as they learn about the destruction that the worst tsunamis in history caused. Students will learn how scientific research is helping people find better ways to prepare for this dangerous natural disaster.
Download or read book Sweeping Tsunamis written by Louise Spilsbury and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2010 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book teaches readers about tsunamis--the causes, after effects, and major storms in history.
