SMART subsea cables for observing the earth and ocean, mitigating environmental hazards, and supporting the blue economy

BM Howe, M Angove, J Aucan, CR Barnes… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Joint Task Force, Science Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications (JTF SMART)
Subsea Cables, is working to integrate environmental sensors for ocean bottom …

High-resolution analysis of a tsunami deposit: Case-study from the 1755 Lisbon tsunami in southwestern Spain

S Cuven, R Paris, S Falvard, E Miot-Noirault… - Marine Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
A multi-proxy approach using trench sediment analysis on the southwestern coast of Spain
(Los Lances Bay, Andalusia) provides a high-resolution record of the 1755 Lisbon tsunami …

A new tool for inundation modeling: Community Modeling Interface for Tsunamis (ComMIT)

VV Titov, CW Moore, DJM Greenslade… - Pure and Applied …, 2011 - Springer
Almost 5 years after the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean tragedy, the 10 August 2009
Andaman tsunami demonstrated that accurate forecasting is possible using the tsunami …

Variable-resolution building exposure modelling for earthquake and tsunami scenario-based risk assessment. An application case in Lima, Peru

JC Gomez-Zapata, N Brinckmann… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2021 - nhess.copernicus.org
We propose the use of variable resolution boundaries based on Central Voronoi
Tessellations (CVT) to spatially aggregate building exposure models for risk assessment to …

Warning triggers in environmental hazards: Who should be warned to do what and when?

TJ Cova, PE Dennison, D Li, FA Drews… - Risk …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Determining the most effective public warnings to issue during a hazardous environmental
event is a complex problem. Three primary questions need to be answered: Who should …

[HTML][HTML] Towards an integrated framework for the risk assessment of coastal structures exposed to earthquake and tsunami hazards

C Reis, M Lopes, MA Baptista, S Clain - Resilient Cities and Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
The spatial distribution of the world population is uneven, with a density of about 40% living
in coastal regions. The trend is expected to continue in both demographic indicators and …

[HTML][HTML] The contribution of submarine optical fiber telecom cables to the monitoring of earthquakes and tsunamis in the NE Atlantic

L Matias, F Carrilho, V Sá, R Omira, M Niehus… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recent developments in optical fiber cable technology allows the use of existing and future
submarine telecommunication cables to provide seismic and sea level information. In this …

Probabilistic tsunami hazard in the Northeast Atlantic from near-and far-field tectonic sources

R Omira, MA Baptista, L Matias - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2015 - Springer
In this article, we present the first study on probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment for the
Northeast (NE) Atlantic region related to earthquake sources. The methodology combines …

A generic framework for tsunami evacuation planning

SJ Scheer, V Varela, G Eftychidis - Physics and Chemistry of the Earth …, 2012 - Elsevier
Tsunami preparedness is fundamentally enhanced having available a comprehensive
catalogue of procedures to be applied one by one thus ensuring a fully working evacuation …

Potential inundation of Lisbon downtown by a 1755-like tsunami

MA Baptista, JM Miranda, R Omira… - Natural Hazards and …, 2011 - nhess.copernicus.org
In this study, we present 10 m resolution tsunami flooding maps for Lisbon downtown and
the Tagus estuary. To compute these maps we use the present bathymetry and topographic …