Submarine Landslides and Tsunamis [electronic resource] /

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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Yalçiner, Ahmet C. editor., Pelinovsky, Efim N. editor., Okal, Emile. editor., Synolakis, Costas E. editor., SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Texto biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2003
Subjects:	Engineering., Hydrogeology., Oceanography., Applied mathematics., Engineering mathematics., Vibration., Dynamical systems., Dynamics., Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control., Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.,
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0205-9
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