NH23B:
Tsunami Hazards and the Responses of Human and Physical Environmental Systems to Tsunami Forcing II

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Jasper Knight, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and Catherine Chague-Goff, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Primary Conveners:  Jasper Knight, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Co-conveners:  James R Goff, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Catherine Chague-Goff, University of New South Wales/ANSTO, Sydney, Australia and Bruce E Jaffe, USGS Pacific Science Ctr, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  James R Goff, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
Diversity of recent tsunami impact, sedimentary record, and hazards from local to distal environments.
Bruce M Richmond1, Guy R Gelfenbaum1, Bruce E Jaffe1 and Witold Szczucinski2, (1)USGS, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
1:55 PM
 
Tsunami Impacts in River Environments
Elena Tolkova1, Hitoshi Tanaka2 and Min Roh2, (1)NorthWest Research Associates Redmond, Redmond, WA, United States, (2)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
2:10 PM
 
Crossing Thresholds – Human Responses to Tsunami Forcing in the Pacific
James R Goff1 and Catherine Chague-Goff1,2, (1)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)University of New South Wales/ANSTO, Sydney, Australia
2:25 PM
 
Tsunamis: Global Exposure and Local Risk Analysis
Carl Bonnevie Harbitz1, Finn Løvholt1, Sylfest Glimsdal1, Nick Horspool2, Jonathan Griffin3, Gareth Davies3 and Regula Frauenfelder1, (1)Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway, (2)GNS Science, Risk and Society, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (3)Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia
2:40 PM
 
Real-time tsunami inundation forecasting and damage mapping towards enhancing tsunami disaster resiliency
Shunichi Koshimura1, Ryota Hino2, Yusaku Ohta3, Hiroaki Kobayashi4, Akihiro Musa4,5 and Yoichi Murashima6, (1)Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, (2)Tohoku University, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Sendai, Japan, (3)Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, Japan, (4)Tohoku University, Cyberscience Center, Sendai, Japan, (5)NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, (6)KOKUSAI KOGYO CO., LTD, Tokyo, Japan
2:55 PM
 
A Hybrid Tsunami Risk Model for Japan
Annes V Haseemkunju, David F Smith, Mahmoud Khater, Omar Khemici, Branimir Betov and James Scott, EQECAT Oakland, CoreLogic EQECAT, Oakland, CA, United States
3:10 PM
 
Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation in The Marmara Region and Disaster Education in Turkey. (SATREPS Project: Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development by JICA-JST)
YoshiYuki Kaneda1,2, Mustafa Ozder Erdik3, Narumi Takahashi1, Nurcan Meral Ozel3, Takane Hori1, Muneo Hori4, Kunihiko Kumamoto5, Dogan Kalafat3, Ali Pinar3, Asim Oguz Ozel6, Ahmet C Yalciner7, Murat Nurlu8, Gulum Tanircan3, Seckin Citak1, Keisuke Ariyoshi1 and Ocal Necmioglu3, (1)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)Nagoya University, Disaster mitigation center, Nagoya, Japan, (3)Kandilli Observatory, Istanbul, Turkey, (4)Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (5)Edogawa University, Tokyo, Japan, (6)Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, (7)Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, (8)Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD), Ankara, Turkey
3:25 PM
 
The Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group: Promoting Earthquake and Tsunami Resilience on California’s North Coast
Lorinda A Dengler, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, United States, Cindy Henderson, Del Norte County Office of Emergency Services, Crescent City, CA, United States, Dan Larkin, Humboldt County Office of Emergency Services, Eureka, CA, United States, Troy Nicolini, NOAA - NWS Eureka Forecast Office, Eureka, CA, United States and Vicki Ozaki, Redwood National and State Parks, Arcata, CA, United States
 
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