Tsunami

The Underrated Hazard
2., nd Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-540-74273-9
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 984 g

Reihe: Springer Praxis Books

Tsunamis are underrated as major hazards, mainly due to the misconceptions that they occur infrequently and happen along some distant shoreline. However, evidence for past great tsunami has recently been discovered along apparently aseismic and protected coastlines, such as those of Australia and Western Europe. This is a comprehensive and well illustrated textbook on all aspects of tsunami. It can be used by a student or layperson to gain encyclopedic knowledge about tsunami.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bryant, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Geophysik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Marine Geologie, Ozeanographie (Meereskunde)
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geophysik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tsunami as a known hazard.- Tsunami dynamics.- Tsunami-formed landscapes.- Signatures of tsunami in the coastal landscape.- Coastal landscape evolution.- Causes of tsunami.- Earthquake-generated tsunami.- Great landslides.- Volcanic eruptions.- Comets and asteroids.- Modern risk of tsunami.- Risk and avoidance.- Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Edward Bryant is a renowned and respected tsunami researcher, writer and teacher in the areas of natural hazards and climatology. Tsunami: The Underrated Hazard was first published by Cambridge University Press in 2001. This is now out of print and CUP confirmed that all rights in the book have reverted to the author. The 2nd Edition incorporates the great Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and the author focuses on geomorphology and the processes and events linked to the main causes of tsunami, namely, earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and, in addition, comet and meteorite impacts.