Tsunami

Shunichi Koshimura

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.11568-4

Tsunami

Shunichi Koshimura

IRIDeS - Risk Evaluation and Disaster Mitigation Research Division

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Abstract

Tsunamis are rare events compared with typhoons and floods but can be extremely devastating. In the past 100 years, 58 tsunamis have claimed more than 260,000 lives; averaging more than 4600 deaths per occurrence. This rate is much higher than any other natural disaster including storms (such as tropical cyclones), floods and earthquakes. This chapter includes brief explanation of physical processes of tsunami generation, propagation and inundation, and disaster mitigation measures with the facts and lessons of the past events.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	692-701
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9780128130810
ISBN (Print)	9780128130827
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.11568-4
Publication status	Published - 2019 Jan 1

Keywords

Damage
Disaster management
Evacuation
Fault rupture
Flow velocity
Hazard map
Indian ocean tsunami
Natural hazards
Physical oceanography
Plate tectonics
Sanriku tsunami
Tohoku tsunami
Tsunami
Tsunami impact
Tsunami inundation

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