Author: George Pararas-CarayannisPublisher:
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Catalog of Tsunamis in the Hawaiian Islands
Author: George Pararas-CarayannisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Catalog of Tsunamis in Hawaii
Author: George Pararas-CarayannisPublisher:
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Category : Tidal waves
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Local Tsunamis and Possible Local Tsunamis in Hawaii
Author: Doak Carey CoxPublisher:
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Tsunami!
Author: Walter C. DudleyPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824865308
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
On April 1, 1946, shortly after sunrise, the town of Hilo on the island of Hawai'i was devastated by a series of giant waves. Traveling 2,300 miles from the Aleutian Islands in less than five hours, the waves struck without warning and claimed 159 lives. Fourteen years later, on May 22, 1960, a massive earthquake occurred off of the coast of Chile. The earthquake generated giant waves that sped across the Pacific at 442 miles per hour, reaching Hilo in just fifteen hours. The first wave to hit the town was a modest four feet higher than normal, the second nine feet. Before the third wave could arrive, a tidal phenomenon known as a bore smashed into the Hilo bayfront, with thirty-five foot waves that wrenched buildings off their foundations. That day several city blocks were swept clean of all structures and 61 people died. The first edition of Tsunami!, published in 1988, provided readers with a complete examination of the tsunami phenomenon in Hawai'i. This second edition adds many eyewitness accounts of the tsunamis of 1946 and 1960 and expands its coverage to include major tsunamis in the Mediterranean and off the coasts of Japan, Chile, Indonesia, Fiji, Alaska, California, Newfoundland, and the Caribbean, as well as the 1998 devastation in Papua New Guinea. Dramatic photographs and accounts of experiencing a tsunami firsthand are placed within the framework of the how and why of tsunamis, our scientific understanding of these phenomena, and the current status of the Tsunami Warning System, which is widely used to forecast and measure tsunamis and prepare coastal areas for potentially deadly tsunami strikes.
Catalog of Tsunami Photographs
Author: John B. NelsonPublisher:
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Category : Tsunamis
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Photographs cover nine events occurring during the period 1944-75 chiefly in Hawaii, California and Alaska.
Catalog of Tsunamis in the Pacific, 1969-1982
Author: S. L. SolovievPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788139312
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
English translation of a Russian publication (although the majority of data used for the compilation of the catalog was originally written in English) by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. All available information on 85 tsunamis observed in the Pacific Ocean during the period 1969-1982 has been collected and systematically arranged in this book. Includes maps of sources, copies of tide gauge records and wave intensities, and a list of the main parameters of the earthquakes and the intensities of the tsunamis. Extensive bibliography.
Catalog of Tsunamis in Alaska
Author: Doak Carey CoxPublisher:
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Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Inundations and Forces Caused by Tsunamis for the State of Hawaii
Author: Charles L. BretschneiderPublisher:
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Category : Flood forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Tsunami-wave Elevation Frequency of Occurrence for the Hawaiian Islands
Author: James Robert HoustonPublisher:
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Category : Finite element method
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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United States Tsunamis
Author: James F. LanderPublisher:
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Category : Tsunamis
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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