Landslide Tsunamis: Recent Findings and Research Directions

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.

This volume presents 20 state-of-the-art contributions on landslide tsunamis. A Tsunami wave is a great sea wave produced by submarine earth movement, volcanic eruption, or landslide.

Theoretical studies

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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.- Re-examination of the Source Mechanism of the 1998 Papua New Guinea Earthquake and Tsunami.- The July 1998 Papua New Guinea Earthquake: Mechanism and Quantification of Unusual Tsunami Generation.- Field Survey and Numerical Simulations: A Review of the 1998 Papua New Guinea Tsunami.- Tsunami Wave Height Dependence on Landslide Volume.- Some Aspects of Energy Balance and Tsunami Generation by Earthquakes and Landslides.- A Theoretical Comparison of Tsunamis from Dislocations and Landslides.- Normal Mode Energetics for Far-field Tsunamis Generated by Dislocations and Landslides.