Tsunami The Underrated Hazard
It is a comprehensive and well illustrated textbook on all aspects of tsunami. I don't think there is any other book on the topic published. As one bookseller said after the Indian Ocean tsunami event, "I would have just filled my front window with copies and they would have walked out the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2014, 2014
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. 2014 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1 Tsunami as a known hazard
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Tsunami dynamics.- Part 2 Tsunami-Formed Landscapes
- 3. Signatures of tsunami in the coastal landscape
- 4. Coastal Landscape Evolution.- Part 3 Causes of Tsunami
- 5. Earthquake-Generated Tsunami
- 6. Great Tsunamigenic Earthquakes
- 7. Great Landslides
- 8. Volcanic Eruptions
- 9. Comets and Asteroids
- Part 4 Modern Risk of Tsunami
- 10. Risk and Avoidance
- 11. Epilogue
- References
- Index