Landslide Tsunamis Recent Findings and Research Directions [Paperback]

In the wake of the disastrous tsunami which struck Papua New Guinea in 1998, this volume presents 20 state-of-the-art contributions on landslide tsunamis, including earthquake characteristics and ground motions, modeling of landslides in geotechnical engineering, field surveys on land and at sea, simulations of past, present, and potential future tsunamis, and theoretical studies of tsunami generation by landslides.

In the wake of the disastrous tsunami which struck Papua New Guinea in 1998, this volume presents 20 state-of-the-art contributions on landslide tsunamis, including earthquake characteristics and ground motions, modeling of landslides in geotechnical engineering, field surveys on land and at sea, simulations of past, present, and potential future tsunamis, and theoretical studies of tsunami generation by landslides.

Landslide Tsunamis: Recent Findings and Research Directions.- Characterization of Earthquake Strong Ground Motion.- The 1998 Papua New Guinea Earthquake and its Fault Plane Estimated from Relocated Aftershocks.- T Waves from the 1998 Papua New Guinea Earthquake and its Aftershocks: Timing the Tsunamigenic Slump.- Triggering Mechanisms of Slope Instability and their Relationship to Earthquakes and Tsunamis.- Landslide-generated Tsunamis: Geotechnical Considerations.- The Aitape 1998 Tsunami: Reconstructing the Event from Interviews and Field Mapping.- Possible Coseismic Large-scale Landslide off the Northern Coast of Papua New Guinea in July 1998: Geophysical and Geological Results from SOS Cruises.- Tectonics and Slumping in the Source Region of the 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami from Seismic Reflection Images.- Erosion and Sedimentation from the 17 July, 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami.- Mitigation Lessons from the July 17, 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami.- Large-scale Basement-involved Landslides, California Continental Borderland.- Failure of Marine Deposits and their Redistribution by Sediment Gravity Flows.lã+