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Tsunami Information Sources University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory Technical Report UCB/HEL 2005-1 TSUNAMI INFORMATION SOURCES By Robert L. Wiegel, Professor Emeritus Dept. Civil & Environmental Engineering 410 O'Brien Hall, MC 1718 University of California Berkeley, California 94720-1718 14 December 2005 University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory, Report UCB/HEL 2005-1 14 December 2005 TSUNAMI INFORMATION SOURCES By Robert L. Wiegel, Professor Emeritus Dept. Civil & Environmental Engineering 410 O'Brien Hall, MC 1718 University of California Berkeley, California 94720-1718 INTRODUCTION I have expanded substantially my list of information sources on: tsunami generation (sources, impulsive mechanisms), propagation, effects of nearshore bathymetry, and wave run-up on shore - including physical (hydraulic) modeling and numerical modeling. This expanded list includes the subjects of field investigations of tsunamis soon after an event; damage effects in harbors on boats, ships, and facilities; tsunami wave-induced forces; damage by tsunami waves to structures on shore; scour/erosion; hazard mitigation; land use planning; zoning; siting, design, construction and maintenance of structures and infrastructure; public awareness and education; distant and local sources; tsunami warning and evacuation programs; tsunami probability and risk criteria. A few references are on "sedimentary signatures" useful in the study of historic and prehistoric tsunamis (paleo- tsunamis). In addition to references specifically on tsunamis, there are references on long water wave and solitary wave theory; wave refraction, diffraction, and reflection; shelf and basin free and forced oscillations (bay and harbor response; seiches); edge waves; Mach-reflection of long water waves ("stem waves"); wave run- up on shore; energy dissipation. All are important in understanding tsunamis, and in hazard mitigation. References are given on subaerial and submarine landslide (and rockfall) generated waves in reservoirs, fjords, bays, and ocean; volcano explosive eruptions/collapse; underwater and surface explosions; asteroid impact. This report is in two parts: 1) Bibliographies, books and pamphlets, catalogs, collections, journals and newsletters, maps, organizations, proceedings, videos and photos; 2) Articles, papers, reports listed alphabetically by author. Many papers on the Indian Ocean (Sumatra) tsunami of 26 December 2004, were given at the 22nd IUGG International Tsunami Symposium, Chania, Crete, 27-29 June 2005, but had not been published at the date of this report. For the program, see http://www.gein.noa.gr/English/tsunamis.htm This list of tsunami information sources (115 pp, about 3,300 entries) is also available on a diskette, at the Water Resources Center Archives, 410 O'Brien Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720-1718. Most of the publications are available in the Water Resources Center Archives or the Earth Sciences Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA. I wish to acknowledge my appreciation of the great help of the staff of the Water Resources Center Archives in finding some difficult to obtain publications; in particular Paul S. Atwood for his help for those on websites and other computer sources. I want to thank John M. Wiegel for his continuous help in searching for sources on websites via computer search-engines. 1) BIBLIOGRAPHIES; BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS; Information Service (NTIS), Springfield, VA, CATALOGS; COLLECTIONS; JOURNALS AND NTIS/PS-77/1165, 190 pp NEWSLETTERS; MAPS; ORGANIZATIONS; Tsunamis: A Selected Bibliography, by Rani J.K. PROCEEDINGS, SYMPOSIA, AND WORKSHOPS; Chawla, Dept. Fisheries and the Environment, VIDEOS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Ottawa,Canada, Manuscript Series No. 51, 1978, 4 pp and microfische in pocket (about 1,900 Bibliographies references) The Annotated Bibliography of Tsunamis (1889- Books and Pamphlets 1962), preface by Ryutaro Takahasi, published by Japanese Organization for Tsunami Investigations Analysis of Structural Damage from the 1960 (JOTI), Tokyo, September 1962, 51 pp (350 Tsunami at Hilo, Hawaii, by Hudson Matlock, Lymon references) D. Reese, and Robert B. Matlock, Structural Mechanics Research Laboratory, The University of Annotated Bibliography on Tsunamis, by M.P. Texas, Austin, TX, prepared for the Defense Atomic Cuellar, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Beach Support Agency, March 1962, 95 pp Erosion Board, Washington, D.C., Tech. Memo. No. 30, 1953, 69 pp (195 references) Are You Ready: Tsunamis, by FEMA, Washington, D.C., updated 26 Jan. 2005, 3 page printout from Annotated Bibliography on Tsunamis, Compiled and http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/tsunamis.shtm edited by Mark G. Spaeth (U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey), in response to a resolution on 21 August The Chilean Tsunami of May 24, 1960, As Observed 1963 during the XIII General Assembly of the Along the Coast of Japan, by Committee for Field International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Investigation of the Chilean Tsunami of 1960 (IUGG), Paris, France, IUGG Monograph No. 27, July (Ryutaro Takahasi, Chairman), Maruzen Co., Tokyo, 1964, 249 pp, (1778 refs.) December 1961, 397 pp (114 tide gage records; 48 photos in the front, and others in several Annotated Bibliography on Water Waves Caused by sections) Explosions, by R.A. Smith, DASIAC Special Report 58, DASA Information and Analysis Center, April Coastal Construction Manual - Principles and 1967 Practice of Planning, Siting, Designing, Constructing, and Maintaining Residential Annotated Tsunami Bibliography, 1962-1976, by G. Buildings in Coastal Areas, U.S. Federal Emergency Pararas-Carayannis, B. Dong, and R. Farmer, NOAA, Management Agency (FEMA), Washington, D.C., 3rd International Tsunami Information Center for the ed., 3 vol. (FEMA 55), 2000, various pagination Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Paper NUREG/CR- 2840, 1982, 532 pp Coastal Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Reducing the Risks, eds. J.W. Charland and J.W. Good, Oregon Bibliography to the Preliminary Catalog of Sea Grant, Corvallis, OR, 1996 Tsunamis Occurring in the Pacific Ocean, by Kumizi Iida, Doak C. Cox, and George Pararas-Carayannis, Comprehensive Planning for Tsunami Hazard Areas, Univ. Hawaii, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, by Urban Regional Research, Seattle, WA; for the Honolulu, HI, Rept. HIG-67-25, Dec. 1967, 27 pp National Science Foundation, 1988, 246 pp An Index to Tsunami Literature to 1966, by Wm. Crescent City's Dark Disaster, March 27-28, 1964, Mansfield Adams, Data Report No. 8, Hawaii by Wallace Griffin, Crescent City Printing Co., Institute of Geophysics, Univ. Hawaii, Honolulu, Crescent City, CA, 1964, 66 pp (many photos, and HI, HIG 67-21, 1967, 241 pp quotes from residents) Survey of Research Studies and Technological Design and Construction Manual for Residential Development on the Problem of Tsunami in USSR in Buildings in Coastal High Hazard Areas, prepared 1987-1989, by S.L. Soloviev, Science of Tsunami by Dames & Moore, for Federal Insurance Hazards, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1990, pp 3-33 (268 Administration, Washington D.C., FIA-7, January references of Russian studies) 1981, 189 pp Tsunami Bibliography, 1962-1976, at the Design and Construction Standards for Residential International Tsunami Information Center (ITIC); Construction in Tsunami-prone Areas of Hawaii, by handwritten index card form, about 3,000 citations Dames and Moore, Washington D.C.; prepared for of tsunami-related papers, in English, or other U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, and languages with English titles or abstracts. Note Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 1980, in Tsunami Newsletter, Vol. 13, No. 2, July 1980, various pagination, maps, plans p. 28 Designing for Tsunamis: Background Papers, Tsunami Information Sources, by Robert L. Wiegel, National Tsunami Mitigation Program (NOAA, USGS, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, Hyd. FEMA, NSF, Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Engineering Laboratory Rept. UCB/HEL 2005-1, 14 Washington); seven background papers developed for December 2005, 115 pp (about 3,300 references and use in preparation of the publication "Designing other sources listed). Also, on a diskette at for Tsunamis: Seven Principles for Planning and Water Resources Center Archives, University of Designing for Tsunami Hazards," March 2001, California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1718 various pagination. Available in print, and online http://www.prh.noaa.gov/itic/library/pubs/online_d Tsunamis: A Bibliography with Abstracts, Search ocs/Designing_for_Tsunamis.pdf Period 1964 - November 1977, Guy E. Habercom, Jr., editor, U.S. Dept. Commerce, National Technical Designing for Tsunamis: Seven Principles for Planning and Designing for Tsunami Hazards, 3 National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program (NOAA, http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1707 USGS, FEMA, NSF, Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington), March 2001, 60 pp, 8-1/2" Planning Scenario in Humboldt and Del Monte x 11" format, with illustrations Counties, California for a Great Earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone, by Tousson R. Toppozada, Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards in the United Glenn Borchardt, Wayne Haydon, Mark Petersen, States: A Research Assessment, by Robert E. Ayre, Robert Olson, Henry Lagorio, and Theodore Anvik, with Dennis S. Mileti and Patricia B. Trainer, State of California Dept. of Conservation, prepared for the National Science Foundation, by Division of Mines and Geology,
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