Landslide Tsunamis: Recent Findings and Research Directions (Pageoph Topical Volumes)

by Costas E . Synolakis (Editor), Jean-PierreBardet (Editor), HughL.Davies (Editor), Fumihiko Imamura (Editor), EmileA.Okal (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $117.48

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