Publication Date:
2005
Description:
The timely topic of tsunami geology was addressed during a recent
international workshop sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).
Participants from 15 nations compared criteria for identifying tsunamis by their
geologic signatures; explored applications to plate tectonics, hazard assessment, and
public education; and discussed recommendations for research priorities. A post-workshop
trip occasioned heartfelt exchanges with Washington state coastal residents two days
after a local tsunami scare. The workshop was prompted by the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26
December 2004, and began with several presentations about that tsunami and about the
lessons being learned from it. Lacking documented precedent in its source region, the
2004 catastrophe provided a horrific reminder of a practical problem: Written and
instrumental records rarely span enough time to warn of the full range of a region's
tsunami hazards
Keywords:
Earthquake hazard
;
Tsunami(s)
;
Geol. aspects
;
outreach
;
paleo
;
Seismology
;
Proceedings of a conference
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4564
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Oceanography:
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Physical:
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Tsunamis
;
and
;
storm
;
surges
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7221
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Seismology:
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Paleoseismology
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4217
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Oceanography:
;
General:
;
Coastal
;
processes
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