Tsunamis: bridging science, engineering and society

U Kanoğlu, V Titov, E Bernard… - … Transactions of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Tsunamis are high-impact, long-duration disasters that in most cases allow for only minutes
of warning before impact. Since the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, there have been significant …

Direct energy estimation of the 2011 Japan tsunami using deep‐ocean pressure measurements

L Tang, VV Titov, EN Bernard, Y Wei… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We have developed a method to compute the total energy transmitted by tsunami waves, to
the case where the earthquake source is unknown, by using deep‐ocean pressure …

The 2006–2007 Kuril Islands great earthquake sequence

T Lay, H Kanamori, CJ Ammon… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The southwestern half of a∼ 500 km long seismic gap in the central Kuril Island arc
subduction zone experienced two great earthquakes with extensive preshock and …

Continuously updated digital elevation models (CUDEMs) to support coastal inundation modeling

CJ Amante, M Love, K Carignan, MG Sutherland… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Centers for
Environmental Information (NCEI) generates digital elevation models (DEMs) that range …

Observations and modeling of tsunami-induced currents in ports and harbors

PJ Lynett, JC Borrero, R Weiss, S Son, D Greer… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Tsunamis, or “harbor waves” in Japanese, are so-named due to common observations of
enhanced wave heights, currents and damage in harbors and ports. However, dynamic …

Observations and impacts from the 2010 Chilean and 2011 Japanese tsunamis in California (USA)

RI Wilson, AR Admire, JC Borrero, LA Dengler… - Pure and Applied …, 2013 - Springer
The coast of California was significantly impacted by two recent teletsunami events, one
originating off the coast of Chile on February 27, 2010 and the other off Japan on March 11 …

Extraction of tsunami source coefficients via inversion of DART buoy data

DB Percival, DW Denbo, MC Eblé, E Gica, HO Mofjeld… - Natural hazards, 2011 - Springer
The ability to accurately forecast potential hazards posed to coastal communities by
tsunamis generated seismically in both the near and far field requires knowledge of so …

Resonance and impact of the 2009 Samoa tsunami around Tutuila, American Samoa

V Roeber, Y Yamazaki… - Geophysical Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The 2009 Samoa tsunami resulted in severe damage and inundation at Tutuila, American
Samoa. The disparity of the impact and the varying accounts of the tsunami along the coast …

Tsunami variability from uncalibrated stochastic earthquake models: tests against deep ocean observations 2006–2016

G Davies - Geophysical Journal International, 2019 - academic.oup.com
This study tests three models for generating stochastic earthquake-tsunami scenarios on
subduction zones by comparison with deep ocean observations from 18 tsunamis during the …

Tsunamigenic major and great earthquakes (2004–2013): source processes inverted from seismic, geodetic, and sea-level data

S Lorito, F Romano, T Lay - Complexity in Tsunamis, Volcanoes, and their …, 2022 - Springer
Two of the great events, the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman MW 9.2 and the 2011 Tohoku MW 9.0
earthquakes are, respectively, the third and the fourth largest earthquakes seismologically …