NH21D:
Interdisciplinary Tsunami Science IV

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Session ID#: 33815

Session Description:
Tsunamis are one of the most devastating natural disasters, with the potential for inflicting tremendous damage along wide stretches of coastal areas. Recent tsunami events have demonstrated that the risk from tsunami hazards has grown tremendously since the last ocean-wide tsunami of 1964, primarily due to the expansion of coastal development and the maritime communities. Tsunami science has become one of the most inter-disciplinary research areas. Social science, applied mathematics, engineering, and geology are as important to tsunami research as traditional seismology and oceanography. This session provides a broad forum for cross-disciplinary studies and invites contributions from all areas of tsunami science including: fundamental and basic research; forecast and warning procedures for current and future events; investigation of geologic records and hindcasting of past events; response, mitigation, and recovery strategies; socio-economic impacts; and hazard and risk studies from tsunamis generated by earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, meteorological phenomena, and meteorite impacts.
Primary Convener:  Erica L E Emry, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Conveners:  Rick I Wilson, California Geological Survey Sacramento, Department of Conservation, Sacramento, CA, United States, Finn Løvholt, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway and Jessica Pilarczyk, University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, United States
Chairs:  Erica L E Emry, USGS, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Finn Løvholt, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway, Rick I Wilson, California Geological Survey Sacramento, Department of Conservation, Sacramento, CA, United States and Jessica Pilarczyk, University of Southern Mississippi, Division of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Erica L E Emry, USGS, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • S - Seismology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

3225 Numerical approximations and analysis [MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS]
4332 Disaster resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4341 Early warning systems [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4564 Tsunamis and storm surges [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Making of a Tsunami Hazard Map: Lessons Learned from the TSUMAPS-NEAM Project (Invited) (272817)
Roberto Basili, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Terremoti, Palermo, Italy and TSUMAPS-NEAM Team
Coastal Tsunami and Risk Assessment for Eastern Mediterranean Countries (273947)
Elcin Kentel and Cunety Yavuz, Middle East Technical University, Department of Civil Engineering, Ankara, Turkey
Rapid Tsunami Inundation Forecast from Near-field or Far-field Earthquakes using Pre-computed Tsunami Database: Pelabuhan Ratu, Indonesia (230797)
Aditya Riadi Gusman, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Urip Setiyono, Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG), Jakarta, Indonesia, Kenji Satake, Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan and Yushiro Fujii, International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, Building Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
Challenges in Defining Tsunami Wave Height (257522)
Paula Kay Dunbar1, George Mungov2, Aaron Sweeney3, Kelly J Stroker2 and Nicolas Paulo Arcos3, (1)NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Univ. of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States

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