Screen LibraryCaribbean tsunami hazard : NSF Caribbean Tsunami Workshop, March 30-31, 2004, San Juan Beach Hotel, Puerto Rico /
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World Scientific,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: | 2006. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/5969#t=toc |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xviii,341pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9812774610 (electronic bk.) 9789812774613 (electronic bk.) |
| CLC: | P731.25-532 |
| Contents: | Need for a Caribbean tsunami warning system. The case for an Atlantic Tsunami warning system / George A. Maul -- Overview of potential tsunami sources in the Caribbean sea region. Estimating the threat of tsunamigenic earthquakes and earthquake induced-landslide tsunami in the Caribbean / William R. McCann. Debris avalanche formation at kick'em Jenny Submarine Volcano (abstract) / Haraldur Sigurdsson, Steven Carey and Doug Wilson. Submarine slides north of Puerto Rico and their tsunami potential / Uri S. ten Brink ... [et al.]. Risk assessment of tsunami generation from active volcanic sources in the eastern Caribbean region / George Pararas-Carayannis. Two-dimensional simulations of explosive eruptions of Kick-em Jenny and other submarine volcanoes / Galen Gisler ... [et al.] -- The tsunami evidence in the Caribbean: paleotsunami studies. Geomorphologic and stratigraphic investigations on historic and pre-historic tsunami in northwestern Puerto Rico: implications for long term coastal evolution / Juan C. Moya and Aurelio Mercado. New evidence and datings of holocene paleotsunami events in the Caribbean (Barbados, St. Martin and Anguilla) / Anja Scheffers and Dieter Kelletat -- Recent Caribbean programs and studies. The Puerto Rico tsunami warning and mitigation program / Aurelio Mercado-Irizarry, Christa von Hillebrandt and Victor Hu erfano. Local and regional waveform analysis for rapid monitoring of shallow Caribbean earthquakes / C. Mendoza and V. Hu erfano. Emergent tsunami warning system for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands / Christa G. von Hillebrandt-Andrade and Victor Hu erfano Moreno. Tsunamis in the lesser Antilles / Narcisso Zahibo and Efim Pelinovsky. An 1867-class tsunami: potential devastation in the US Virgin Islands / Roy A. Watlington. The UNESCO/IOC International Tsunami Information Center and its role in the Caribbean (abstract) / Laura S. L. Kong. The Richard H. Hagemeyer Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and its role in the Caribbean (abstract) / Charles S. McCreery. NEES program's support for tsunami experimental research (abstract) / Cherri M. Pancake. Integrated tsunami scenario simulation (abstract) / Harry Yeh -- Tsunami physics and modeling efforts. Tsunami forces in the runup zone / Harry Yeh. Wave generation, runup and rundown from three-dimensional sliding masses (abstract) / Philip L.-F. Liu. Three-dimensional runup due to submerged and subaerial landslides / P. Lynett and P. L.-F. Liu. Physical modeling of landslide generated tsunami / Hermann M. Fritz. Generation and propagation of tsunamis triggered by earthquakes and landslides: a theoretical and a simulation viewpoint (abstract) / Entile A. Okal and Costas E. Synolakis. Modeling of tsunamis in the eastern Mediterranean and comparison with Caribbean / Ahmet Cevdet Yalciner, Hulya Karakus and Ugur Kuran. Advances in tsunami inundation mapping in California (abstract) / Jos e Borrero and Costas Synolakis. |