Submarine landslides and tsunamis : proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Underwater Ground Failures and Tsunami Generation, Modeling, Risk and Mitigation, Istanbul, Turkey, May 23-26, 2001

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xix Front Matter....Pages xxi-xxi Tsunamis of Seismic Origin....Pages 1-8 Needs and Perspectives of Tsunami Research in Europe....Pages 9-16 Front Matter....Pages N1-N1 Identification of Slide-Generated Tsunamis in the Historical Catalogues....Pages 17-24 Updating and Revision of the European Tsunami Catalogue....Pages 25-32 Tsunami of ŞArkoy-Mürefte 1912 Earthquake: Western Marmara, Turkey....Pages 33-42 Spatial, and Temporal Periodicity in the Pacific Tsunami Occurrence....Pages 43-50 Front Matter....Pages N3-N3 Submarine Landslide Generated Waves Modeled Using Depth-Integrated Equations....Pages 51-58 Near-Field Amplitudes of Tsunami from Submarine Slumps and Slides....Pages 59-68 Numerical Modeling of Tsunami Generation by Submarine and Subaerial Landslides....Pages 69-88 Tsunami Simulation Taking Into Account Seismically Induced Dynamic Seabed Displacement, and Acoustic Effects of Water....Pages 89-99 Impulsive Tsunami Generation by Rapid Bottom Deflections at Initially Uniform Depth....Pages 101-109 Analytical Models of Tsunami Generation by Submarine Landslides....Pages 111-128 Tsunami Generation in Compressible Ocean of Variable Depth....Pages 129-137 Tsunami Wave Excitation by a Local Floor Disturbance....Pages 139-150 Effects of Tsunami at Sissano Lagoon, Papua New Guinea: Submarine-Landslide, and Tectonics Origins....Pages 151-162 Natural Gas Hydrates as a Cause of Underwater Landslides: A Review....Pages 163-169 Coastal Deformation Occurred During the August 17,1999 İzmit Earthquake....Pages 171-174 Front Matter....Pages N5-N5 A Review of Some Tsunamis in Canada....Pages 175-183 Synthetic Tsunami Simulations for the French Coasts....Pages 185-190 Inundation Modeling of the 1964 Tsunami in Kodiak Island, Alaska....Pages 191-201 Front Matter....Pages N5-N5 A Method for Mathematical Modelling of Tsunami Runup on a Shore....Pages 203-216 Evaluation of Tsunami Hazard for the Southern Kamchatka Coast Using Historical, and Paleotsunami Data....Pages 217-228 Tsunami Hazards Associated With Explosion-Collapse Processes of a Dome Complex on Minoan Thera....Pages 229-236 Possible Tsunami Deposits Discovered on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, and Some Applications....Pages 237-242 Influence of the Atmospheric Wave Velocity in the Coastal Amplification of Meteotsunamis....Pages 243-249 Impact of Surface Waves on the Coastal Ecosystems....Pages 251-258 Front Matter....Pages N7-N7 Engineering Standards for Marine Oil Terminals and Other Natural Hazard Threats....Pages 259-266 A Tsunami Mitigation Program Within the California Earthquake Loss Reduction Plan....Pages 267-276 Short-Term Inundation Forecasting for Tsunamis....Pages 277-284 Quantification of Tsunamis: A Review....Pages 285-291 Rubble Mound Breakwaters Under Tsunami Attack....Pages 293-302 Vulnerability Assessment as a Tool for Hazard Mitigation....Pages 303-313 Producing Tsunami Inundation Maps: The California Experience....Pages 315-326 Back Matter....Pages 327-328 This book/CD-ROM proceedings of a May 2001 workshop presents recent work on general aspects of tsunami research, such as seismic origins of tsunamis, and looks at the role of research into historical tsunamis. Papers on submarine landslides and tsunami generation describe work in areas including submarine landslide generated waves modeled using depth-integrated equations, near-field amplitudes of tsunamis from submarine slumps and slides, and numerical modeling of tsunami generation by submarine and subaerial landslides. Work in tsunami propagation and coastal impact investigates coastal deformation occurring during the 1999 Izmit earthquake, mathematical modeling of tsunami runup on a shore, and the impact of surface waves on coastal ecosystems. Tsunami mitigation methods are also described. There is no subject index. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) This book presents intensely interdisciplinary, comprehensive modern investigations, with contributions ranging from basic and applied science to coastal zone management. The work is indispensable for tsunami scientists, coastal and ocean engineers, marine geologists and geophysicists, planners and policy makers, and coastal zone managers seeking to better understand and mitigate the coastal impact of tsunamis.