The development, testing, and implementation of a real-time tsunami forecast model, the
method of splitting tsunami (MOST), is described. MOST is now used as an operational …

With human activity increasingly concentrating on coasts, tsunamis (from Japanese tsu=
harbour, nami= wave) are a major natural hazard to today's society. Stimulated by disastrous …

“It came from nowhere, snapping giant ships in two. No one believed the survivors... until
now”—New Scientist magazine cover, June 30, 2001 Rogue waves are the focus of this …

Since the 1970s, solitary waves have commonly been used to model tsunamis especially in
experimental and mathematical studies. Unfortunately, the link to geophysical scales is not …

A numerical solution for the 2+ 1 (long-shore and onshore propagation directions and time)
nonlinear shallow-water wave equations, without friction factors or artificial viscosity is …

On 27 February 2010, a magnitude M w= 8.8 earthquake occurred off the coast of Chile's
Maule region causing substantial damage and loss of life. Ancestral tsunami knowledge …

The origin of the Papua New Guinea tsunami that killed over 2100 people on 17 July 1998
has remained controversial, as dislocation sources based on the parent earthquake fail to …

Earthquakes are nearly unique among natural phenomena-they affect virtually everything
within a region, from massive buildings and bridges, down to the furnishings within a home …

In the first edition, we paid attention not only to tsunami waves, but to related phenomena,
namely, seaquakes, as well, which to a significant extent reflected the interests of the …

In the aftermath of the 26 December, 2004 tsunami, several quantitative predictions of
inundation for historic events were presented at international meetings differing substantially …