The 2004 tsunami in Aceh and Southern Thailand: a review on coastal ecosystems, wave hazards and vulnerability

R Cochard, SL Ranamukhaarachchi… - Perspectives in Plant …, 2008 - Elsevier
In December 2004, a huge tsunami in SE Asia claimed many lives and caused catastrophic
damage. This event has stimulated a debate about the role played by coastal ecosystems …

Tsunami occurrence 1900–2020: A global review, with examples from Indonesia

JA Reid, WD Mooney - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2023 - Springer
We present an overview of tsunami occurrences based on an analysis of a global database
of tsunamis for the period 1900–2020. We evaluate the geographic and statistical …

Diverse tsunamigenesis triggered by the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption

P Lynett, M McCann, Z Zhou, W Renteria, J Borrero… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
On the evening of 15 January 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano unleashed a
violent underwater eruption, blanketing the surrounding land masses in ash and debris,. The …

Tsunami modelling with adaptively refined finite volume methods

RJ LeVeque, DL George, MJ Berger - Acta Numerica, 2011 - cambridge.org
Numerical modelling of transoceanic tsunami propagation, together with the detailed
modelling of inundation of small-scale coastal regions, poses a number of algorithmic …

[LLIBRE][B] The underrated hazard

E Bryant - 2008 - Springer
In the last three years, there have been three large tsunamis in the Indian Ocean, most
notably the notorious one which struck on 26 December 2004 and killed more than 238,000 …

On the solitary wave paradigm for tsunamis

PA Madsen, DR Fuhrman… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Since the 1970s, solitary waves have commonly been used to model tsunamis especially in
experimental and mathematical studies. Unfortunately, the link to geophysical scales is not …

[LLIBRE][B] Physics of tsunamis

BW Levin, M Nosov - 2009 - Springer
In the first edition, we paid attention not only to tsunami waves, but to related phenomena,
namely, seaquakes, as well, which to a significant extent reflected the interests of the …

The 2011 Japan tsunami current velocity measurements from survivor videos at Kesennuma Bay using LiDAR

HM Fritz, DA Phillips, A Okayasu… - Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude Mw 9.0 earthquake occurred off the coast of Japan's
Tohoku region causing catastrophic damage and loss of life. The tsunami flow velocity …

Analytical solutions for tsunami runup on a plane beach: single waves, N-waves and transient waves

PA Madsen, HA Schaeffer - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2010 - cambridge.org
In the literature it has so far been common practice to consider solitary waves and N-waves
(composed of solitary waves) as the appropriate model of tsunamis approaching the …

Shelter from the storm? Use and misuse of coastal vegetation bioshields for managing natural disasters

RA Feagin, N Mukherjee, K Shanker… - Conservation …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Vegetated coastal ecosystems provide goods and services to billions of people. In the
aftermath of a series of recent natural disasters, including the Indian Ocean Tsunami …