Caribbean tsunami hazard : NSF Caribbean Tsunami Workshop, March 30-31, 2004, San Juan Beach Hotel, Puerto Rico / / editors, Aurelio Mercado-Irizarry, Philip Liu

• Pubblicazione: Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 341 p. ) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
• Disciplina: 551.463709729
• Soggetto topico: Tsunamis - Caribbean Area; Natural disasters - Caribbean Area
• Altri autori: Mercado-IrizarryAurelio LiuPhilip L. F
• Note generali: "NSF Caribbean Tsunami Workshop, March 30-31, 2004, San Juan Beach Hotel, Puerto Rico."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Need for a Caribbean tsunami warning system. The case for an Atlantic Tsunami warning system / George A. Maul -- Overview of potential tsunami sources in the Caribbean sea region. Estimating the threat of tsunamigenic earthquakes and earthquake induced-landslide tsunami in the Caribbean / William R. McCann. Debris avalanche formation at kick'em Jenny Submarine Volcano (abstract) / Haraldur Sigurdsson, Steven Carey and Doug Wilson. Submarine slides north of Puerto Rico and their tsunami potential / Uri S. ten Brink ... [et al.]. Risk assessment of tsunami generation from active volcanic sources in the eastern Caribbean region / George Pararas-Carayannis. Two-dimensional simulations of explosive eruptions of Kick-em Jenny and other submarine volcanoes / Galen Gisler ... [et al.] -- The tsunami evidence in the Caribbean: paleotsunami studies. Geomorphologic and stratigraphic investigations on historic and pre-historic tsunami in northwestern Puerto Rico: implications for long term coastal evolution / Juan C. Moya and Aurelio Mercado. New evidence and datings of holocene paleotsunami events in the Caribbean (Barbados, St. Martin and Anguilla) / Anja Scheffers and Dieter Kelletat -- Recent Caribbean programs and studies. The Puerto Rico tsunami warning and mitigation program / Aurelio Mercado-Irizarry, Christa von Hillebrandt and Victor Hu�erfano. Local and regional waveform analysis for rapid monitoring of shallow Caribbean earthquakes / C. Mendoza and V. Hu�erfano. Emergent tsunami warning system for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands / Christa G. von Hillebrandt-Andrade and Victor Hu�erfano Moreno. Tsunamis in the lesser Antilles / Narcisso Zahibo and Efim Pelinovsky. An 1867-class tsunami: potential devastation in the US Virgin Islands / Roy A. Watlington. The UNESCO/IOC International Tsunami Information Center and its role in the Caribbean (abstract) / Laura S. L. Kong. The Richard H. Hagemeyer Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and its role in the Caribbean (abstract) / Charles S. McCreery. NEES program's support for tsunami experimental research (abstract) / Cherri M. Pancake. Integrated tsunami scenario simulation (abstract) / Harry Yeh -- Tsunami physics and modeling efforts. Tsunami forces in the runup zone / Harry Yeh. Wave generation, runup and rundown from three-dimensional sliding masses (abstract) / Philip L.-F. Liu. Three-dimensional runup due to submerged and subaerial landslides / P. Lynett and P. L.-F. Liu. Physical modeling of landslide generated tsunami / Hermann M. Fritz. Generation and propagation of tsunamis triggered by earthquakes and landslides: a theoretical and a simulation viewpoint (abstract) / Entile A. Okal and Costas E. Synolakis. Modeling of tsunamis in the eastern Mediterranean and comparison with Caribbean / Ahmet Cevdet Yalciner, Hulya Karakus and Ugur Kuran. Advances in tsunami inundation mapping in California (abstract) / Jos�e Borrero and Costas Synolakis.
• Titolo autorizzato: Caribbean tsunami hazard
• ISBN: 1-281-91957-8; 9786611919573; 981-277-461-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815681203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II