NH21A:
Recent Advances in Research on Geological and Environmental Impacts of Tsunamis I Posters

Session ID#: 4997

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Catherine Chague-Goff, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and Bruce M Richmond, USGS California Water Science Center Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Catherine Chague-Goff, University of New South Wales/ANSTO, Sydney, Australia
Co-conveners:  Witold Szczucinski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poznan, Poland, Bruce M Richmond, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Kazuhisa Goto, Tokyo University, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Tokyo, Japan
OSPA Liaison:  Catherine Chague-Goff, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • S - Seismology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

1862 Sediment transport [HYDROLOGY]
4302 Geological [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4317 Precursors [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Elemental and Mineralogical Analysis of Tsunami Deposits from Phra Thong Island, Thailand (11936)
Dat Tien Pham1, Chris Gouramanis2, Adam D Switzer1,3, Charles Martin Rubin1,2, Brian B Jones4, Kruawun Jankaew5 and Paul F. Carr4, (1)Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, (2)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (3)Nanyang Technological University, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (4)University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, (5)Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
 
Same Same, But Different: Sedimentological Comparison of Recent Storm and Tsunami Deposits from the South-Eastern Coastline of India (11797)
Chris Gouramanis1, Adam D Switzer2, Srinivasalu Seshachalam3, Anandasabari Karthikeyan4, Dat Tien Pham1, Stephen Carson5, Jessica Pilarczyk6, Mohammed Hussain7 and Wenshu Yap5, (1)Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, (2)Nanyang Technological University, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (3)Anna University, Chennai, Department of Geology, Chennai, India, (4)Anna University Coimbatore Regional Center, Chennai, India, (5)Earth Observatory of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (6)Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, New Brunswick, United States, (7)University of Madras, Department of Geology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Chennai, India
 
Tsunami Recurrences in the Ryukyu Arc-trench System: Geological Records in the Jinshan Coastal Plain of North Taiwan (15611)
Neng-Ti Yu1, Jiun-Yee Yen2, Li-Hung Lin3 and Jin Hsing Liu2, (1)National HsinChu Univesity of Education, Department of Applied Science, Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan, (2)National Donghua University, Shoufeng, Taiwan, (3)Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Geological records of paleotsunamis/extreme wave events in the Pacific Coast of Taiwan (21129)
Jiun-Yee Yen, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien County, Taiwan, Neng-Ti Yu, National HsinChu Univesity of Education, Department of Applied Science, Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan, Li-Hung Lin, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Pei-Ling Wang, NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and Jin Hsing Liu, National Donghua University, Shoufeng, Taiwan
 
Paleo-tsunami deposits since ca. 5 ka in Koyadori and Onuma on the Sanriku Coast, northeast Japan (15353)
Daisuke Ishimura, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan and Takahiro Miyauchi, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
 
Geochemical Characteristics of Typhoon - and Tsunami - Induced Deposits from Western Kyushu Islands (28012)
Kinuyo Kanamaru, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, Jonathan D Woodruff, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, United States, Shohini Kundu, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Tim Cook, Worcester State University, Worcester, MA, United States
 
Identification of a volcaniclastic tsunami deposit at a volcanically active region in southeastern Kyushu, Japan (20314)
Masaki Yamada1, Yugo Nakamura2, Hiroshi Moriwaki3, Takashi Chiba1 and Shigehiro Fujino4, (1)University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (3)Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan, (4)Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
 
A New, Continuous 5400 Yr-long Paleotsunami Record from Lake Huelde, Chiloe Island, South Central Chile. (12038)
Philipp Kempf1, Jasper Moernaut2, Willem Vandoorne3, Maarten E Van Daele4, Mario Pino2, Roberto Urrutia5 and Marc A O De Batist6, (1)Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Geological Sciences, Berlin, Germany, (2)Universidad Austral de Chile, Escuela de Geología, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales & Evolutivas, Valdivia, Chile, (3)Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, (4)Ghent University, Department of Geology, Gent, Belgium, (5)Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile, (6)Ghent University, Renard Centre of Marine Geology, Gent, Belgium
 
Contribution of foraminifera to discriminate depositional events within an apparently massive tsunami deposit (16225)
Natalia Maria Hoska1,2, Francisco Fatela1,2, Pedro J. M. Costa1,2, Cesar Andrade1, Maria Conceicao Freitas1,2 and Maria Alexandra Oliveira1,2, (1)Centro de Geologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, (2)Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Geologia, Lisboa, Portugal
 
Role of backwash in sedimentation from tsunami on confined coastal plain on western Greenland - insights from textural properties of 2000 AD landslide-generated tsunami deposits (31287)
Paulina Ćwik, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland and Witold Szczucinski, Institute of Geology, A. Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, Mateusz C. Strzelecki, Department of Geomorphology, University of Wroclaw, Poland, Antony J. Long Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
 
Reconstructing Flow Patterns from Tsunami Deposits with No Visible Sedimentary Structure (4322)
Claire L Kain1, Catherine Chague-Goff2,3, James R Goff3, Patrick Wassmer4, Christopher A Gomez5 and Deirdre E Hart5, (1)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Kirrawee, Australia, (3)University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, (4)University Paris 1, Laboratory of Physical Geography, Paris, France, (5)University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
 
A Natural Laboratory for Offshore Paleotsunami Studies: The Augusta Bay (Eastern Sicily-Italy) (12451)
Alessandra Smedile1, Flavia Molisso2, Catherine Chague-Goff3,4, Paolo Marco De Martini1, Stefania Pinzi1, Marina Iorio2, Leonardo Sagnotti1 and Daniela Pantosti5, (1)INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (2)CNR Institute for Coastal Marine Environment, Naples, Italy, (3)Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Kirrawee, Australia, (4)University of New South Wales, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Sydney, Australia, (5)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Roma, Italy
 
Storm Surge of Supertyphoon Haiyan (7–9 Nov 2013) on Samar (Philippines) Moved the Largest Boulder Ever Documented for a Recent Storm (10105)
Max Engel1, Simon Matthias May1, Dominik Brill1, Michelle Reyes2 and Helmut Brückner1, (1)University of Cologne, Institute of Geography, Cologne, Germany, (2)Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, Metro Manila, Philippines
 
Effective research method and problems of the Paleotsunami studies in Taiwan (28946)
Yuka Nishikawa1, Wen-Shan Chen1, Nobuhisa Matsuta2, Jiun-Yee Yen3 and Neng-Ti Yu4, (1)National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, (3)National Dong Hwa University, Hualien County, Taiwan, (4)National HsinChu Univesity of Education, Department of Applied Science, Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan
 
When is a Tsunami a Mega-Tsunami? (21677)
Catherine Chague-Goff1,2, James R Goff1, James P Terry3 and Kazuhisa Goto4, (1)UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia, (2)Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation - ANSTO, Lucas Heights, Australia, (3)Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, (4)Tokyo University, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Tokyo, Japan
 
Tsunami damage in the southern Kanto region from the 1703 Genroku Kanto earthquake (12002)
Jun Muragishi, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan and Kenji Satake, The University of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan
 
Using tsunami deposits to validate inundation modeling at Sedanka Island: Revealing clues about great earthquakes in the Unalaska seismic gap. (17463)
SeanPaul La Selle, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Guy R Gelfenbaum, USGS, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Robert Carleton Witter, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, Richard W Briggs, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States, Rich D Koehler III, State of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Simon E Engelhart, University of Rhode Island, Department of Geosciences, Narragansett, RI, United States and Gary A Carver, Carver Geologic Inc., Kodiak, AK, United States
 
Inferring relative tsunami magnitudes from inverse and forward sediment transport modeling of tsunami deposits in the Eastern Aleutian Islands. (18292)
Guy R Gelfenbaum1, SeanPaul La Selle2, Robert Carleton Witter3, Erica L E Emry2, Richard W Briggs4, Rich D Koehler III5, Simon E Engelhart6 and Gary A Carver7, (1)USGS, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, (4)USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, United States, (5)State of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)University of Rhode Island, Department of Geosciences, Narragansett, RI, United States, (7)Carver Geologic Inc., Kodiak, AK, United States
 
Multiscale Modelling of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami with Fluidity: Coastal Inundation and Run-up. (21579)
Jon Hill, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, Robert Martin-Short, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Matthew D Piggott, Imperial College London, Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom and Adam S Candy, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
 
Comparison between Observed Tsunami Heights and Numerical Simulation of the 1854 Ansei-Tokai Earthquake Tsunami in Gokasho Bay, central Japan (18686)
Ryutaro Naruhashi, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Kenji Satake, The University of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan, Mohammad Heidarzadeh, Brunel University London, London, United Kingdom and Tomoya Harada, Interfaculty Initiative for Information Studies & Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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