Tsunami Science: Ten years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

Ten years ago, on December 26, 2004, one of the world's most destructive natural disasters occurred. A magnitude Mw 9.1 earthquake (third strongest ever instrumentally recorded) generated a global tsunami that killed about 230,000 people along the coasts of 14 countries in the Indian Ocean and propagated as far as the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans. Since then, various countries from around the globe contributed major funding to tsunami research and mitigation, enabling the installation of hundreds of new high-precision instruments, the development of new technology and the establishment of more modern communication systems. As a result, incredible progress has been achieved in tsunami research and operation during the ten years after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.The papers presented in this second of two special volumes of Pure and Applied Geophysics reflect the state of tsunami science during this time, including two papers devoted to global observations. Five papers provide new findings specifically in the Indian Ocean. Eight papers cover Pacific Ocean studies, focusing mainly on the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Remaining papers in the volume describe studies in the Atlantic and Mediterranean and general tsunami source studies.The volume is of interest to scientists and practitioners involved in all aspects of tsunamis from earthquake source processes to transoceanic wave propagation and coastal impacts. Postgraduate students in geophysics, oceanography and coastal engineering as well as students in the broader geosciences, civil and environmental engineering will also find the book to be a valuable resource, as it combines recent case studies with advances in tsunami science and natural hazards mitigation.

State of the art in many aspects of tsunami research Authored by some of the top tsunami scientists around the world Scientific and applied problems of tsunami examination and warning

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Introduction.RABINOVICH, A.B., GEIST, E.L., FRITZ, H.M., and BORRERO, J.C.- GLOBAL OBSERVATIONS.- Evaluation of intensity of recent seismogenic tsunamis in the World Ocean from 2000 to 2014, GUSIAKOV, V.K.- Deep-ocean measurements of tsunami waves.RABINOVICH, A.B., and EBLÉ, M.C.-INDIAN OCEAN.- A decade after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami The progress in disaster preparedness and future challenges in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Maldives, SUPPASRI, A., GOTO, K., MUHARI, A., RANASINGHE, P., RIYAZ, M., MAS, E., YASUDA, M., and IMAMURA, F.- Field survey of the 1945 Makran and 2004 Indian Ocean tsunamis in Baluchistan, IranOKAL, E.A., FRITZ, H.M., HAMZEH, M.A., and GHASEMZADEH, J.- OSL Dating and GPR mapping of palaeotsunami inundation: a 4000 year history of Indian Ocean tsunamis as recorded in Sri Lanka, PREMASIRI, R., STYLES, P., SHRIRA, V., CASSIDY, N., and SCHWENNINGER, J.-L.- Tsunami impact computed from offshore modelings and coastal amplification laws: Insights from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, HÉBERT, H., and SCHINDELE, F.- Recent advances in agent-based tsunami evacuation simulations: Case studies in Indonesia, Thailand, Japan and Peru.MAS, E., KOSHIMURA, S., IMAMURA, F., SUPPASRI, A., MUHARI, A., and ADRIANO, B.- PACIFIC OCEAN.- Interrogation of the megathrust zone in the Tohoku-Oki seismic region by waveform complexity: Intraslab earthquake rupture and reactivation of subducted normal faults, LUI, S.K.Y., HELMBERGER, D., WEI, S., HUANG, Y., and GRAVES, R.W.- Rapidness and robustness of finite-source inversion of the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake by an elliptical-patches method using continuous GPS and acceleration data, ULRICH, T., and AOCHI, H.- Parallel implementation of dispersive tsunami wave modeling with a nesting algorithm for the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami,BABA, T., TAKAHASHI, N., KANEDA, Y., ANDO, K., MATSUOKA, D., and KATO, T.- Investigation of hydrodynamic parameters and the effects of breakwaters during the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami in Kamaishi Bay, OZER, C.S., YALÇINER, A.C., ZAYTSEV, A., SUPPASRI, A., and IMAMURA, F.- On the leading negative phase of major 2010-2014 tsunamis. EBLÉ, M.C., MUNGOV, G., and RABINOVICH, A.B.- The Great 2006 and 2007 Kuril earthquakes, forearc segmentation and seismic activity of the Central Kuril Islands region, BARANOV, B.V., IVASHCHENKO, A.I. and DOZOROVA K.A.- Estimation of extreme sea levels for the Russian coasts of the Kuril Islands and the Sea of Okhotsk, SHEVCHENKO, G.V., and IVELSKAYA, T.- Evaluation of the relationship between coral damage and tsunami dynamics; Case study: 2009 Samoa tsunami, DILMEN, D.I., TITOV, V.V., and ROE, G.H.- An underwater landslide The factor and trigger of the June 22, 1932 tsunami off the Pacific coast of Mexico?, CORONA, N., and RAMÍREZ-HERRERA, M.-T.- ATLANTIC OCEAN ANDMEDITERRANEAN.- Far-field tsunami hazard in the north Atlantic basin from large scale flank collapses of the Cumbre Vieja Volcano, La Palma, TEHRANIRAD, B., HARRIS, J.C., GRILLI, A.R., GRILLI, S.T., ABADIE, S., KIRBY, J.T., and SHI, F.- Earthquake scenario-based tsunami wave heights in the Eastern Mediterranean and its connected seas, NECMIOGLU, O. and ÖZEL, N.M.- TSUNAMI SOURCES.-Tsunami squares approach to landslide-generated waves: Application to Gongjiafang landslide, Three Gorges Reservoir, China, XIAO, L., WARD, S.N., and WANG J.- Quantification of tsunami bathymetry effect on finite fault slip inversion,BLETERY, Q., SLADEN, A., DELOUIS, B., and MATTÉO, L.