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TSUNAMI HAZARDS the International Journal of the Tsunami Society Volume 24 Number 2 Published Electronically 2006 ISSN 8755-6839 SCIENCE OF TSUNAMI HAZARDS The International Journal of The Tsunami Society Volume 24 Number 2 Published Electronically 2006 TSUNAMI INFORMATION SOURCES 58 Robert L. Wiegel University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA copyright c 2006 THE TSUNAMI SOCIETY 2525 Correa Rd., UH/SOEST, Rm 215 HIG Honolulu, HI 96822, USA WWW.STHJOURNAL.ORG OBJECTIVE: The Tsunami Society publishes this journal to increase and disseminate knowledge about tsunamis and their hazards. DISCLAIMER: Although these articles have been technically reviewed by peers, The Tsunami Society is not responsible for the veracity of any state- ment, opinion or consequences. EDITORIAL STAFF Dr. Charles Mader, Editor Mader Consulting Co. 1049 Kamehame Dr., Honolulu, HI. 96825-2860, USA EDITORIAL BOARD Mr. George Curtis, University of Hawaii - Hilo Dr. Hermann Fritz, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Pararas Carayannis, Honolulu, Hawaii Dr. Zygmunt Kowalik, University of Alaska Dr. Tad S. Murty, Ottawa Dr. Yurii Shokin, Novosibirsk Professor Stefano Tinti, University of Bologna TSUNAMI SOCIETY OFFICERS Dr. Barbara H. Keating, President Dr. Tad S. Murty, Vice President Dr. Charles McCreery, Secretary Submit manuscripts of articles, notes or letters to the Editor. If an article is accepted for publication the author(s) must submit a scan ready manuscript, a TeX or a PDF file in the journal format. Issues of the journal are published electronically in PDF format. Recent journal issues are available at http://www.sthjournal.org. Tsunami Society members will be advised by e-mail when a new issue is available. There are no page charges or reprints for authors. Permission to use figures, tables and brief excerpts from this journal in scientific and educational works is hereby granted provided that the source is acknowledged. Issues of the journal from 1982 thru 2005 are available in PDF format at http://epubs.lanl.gov/tsunami/ and on a CD-ROM from the Society to Tsunami Society members. ISSN 8755-6839 http://www.sthjournal.org Published Electronically by The Tsunami Society in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Report UCB/HEL 2005-1 14 December 2005 TSUNAMI INFORMATION SOURCES 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. Science of Tsunami Hazards, Vol. 24, No. 2, page 58 (2006) 2 1) BIBLIOGRAPHIES; BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS; Tsunamis: A Selected Bibliography, by Rani J.K. CATALOGS; COLLECTIONS; JOURNALS AND Chawla, Dept. Fisheries and the Environment, Ottawa, Canada, Manuscript Series No. 51, 1978, 4 pp and NEWSLETTERS; MAPS; ORGANIZATIONS; microfische in pocket (about 1,900 references) PROCEEDINGS, SYMPOSIA, AND WORKSHOPS; VIDEOS AND PHOTOGRAPHS Books and Pamphlets Bibliographies Analysis of Structural Damage from the 1960 Tsunami at Hilo, Hawaii, by Hudson Matlock, Lymon D. Reese, The Annotated Bibliography of Tsunamis (1889-1962), and Robert B. Matlock, Structural Mechanics Research preface by Ryutaro Takahasi, published by Japanese Laboratory, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, Organization for Tsunami Investigations (JOTI), prepared for the Defense Atomic Support Agency, Tokyo, September 1962, 51 pp (350 references) March 1962, 95 pp Annotated Bibliography on Tsunamis, by M.P. Cuellar, Are You Ready: Tsunamis, by FEMA, Washington, D.C., U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Beach Erosion Board, updated 26 Jan. 2005, 3 page printout from Washington, D.C., Tech. Memo. No. 30, 1953, 69 pp http://www.fema.gov/areyouready/tsunamis.shtm (195 references) The Chilean Tsunami of May 24, 1960, As Observed Annotated Bibliography on Tsunamis, Compiled and Along the Coast of Japan, by Committee for Field edited by Mark G. Spaeth (U.S. Coast and Geodetic Investigation of the Chilean Tsunami of 1960 Survey), in response to a resolution on 21 August (Ryutaro Takahasi, Chairman), Maruzen Co., Tokyo, 1963 during the XIII General Assembly of the December 1961, 397 pp (114 tide gage records; 48 International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics photos in the front, and others in several sections) (IUGG), Paris, France, IUGG Monograph No. 27, July 1964, 249 pp, (1778 refs.) Coastal Construction Manual - Principles and Practice of Planning, Siting, Designing, Annotated Bibliography on Water Waves Caused by Constructing, and Maintaining Residential Buildings Explosions, by R.A. Smith, DASIAC Special Report 58, in Coastal Areas, U.S. Federal Emergency Management DASA Information and Analysis Center, April 1967 Agency (FEMA), Washington, D.C., 3rd ed., 3 vol. (FEMA 55), 2000, various pagination Annotated Tsunami Bibliography, 1962-1976, by G. Pararas-Carayannis, B. Dong, and R. Farmer, NOAA, Coastal Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Reducing the International Tsunami Information Center for the Risks, eds. J.W. Charland and J.W. Good, Oregon Sea Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Paper NUREG/CR-2840, Grant, Corvallis, OR, 1996 1982, 532 pp Comprehensive Planning for Tsunami Hazard Areas, by Bibliography to the Preliminary Catalog of Tsunamis Urban Regional Research, Seattle, WA; for the Occurring in the Pacific Ocean, by Kumizi Iida, Doak National Science Foundation, 1988, 246 pp C. Cox, and George Pararas-Carayannis, Univ. Hawaii, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, Honolulu, HI, Rept. Crescent City's Dark Disaster, March 27-28, 1964, by HIG-67-25, Dec. 1967, 27 pp Wallace Griffin, Crescent City Printing Co., Crescent City, CA, 1964, 66 pp (many photos, and An Index to Tsunami Literature to 1966, by Wm. quotes from residents) Mansfield Adams, Data Report No. 8, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, Univ. Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, HIG 67- Design and Construction Manual for Residential 21, 1967, 241 pp Buildings in Coastal High Hazard Areas, prepared by Dames & Moore, for Federal Insurance Administration, Survey of Research Studies and Technological Washington D.C., FIA-7, January 1981, 189 pp Development on the Problem of Tsunami in USSR in 1987-1989, by S.L. Soloviev, Science of Tsunami Design and Construction Standards for Residential Hazards, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1990, pp 3-33 (268 Construction in Tsunami-prone Areas of Hawaii, by references of Russian studies) Dames and Moore, Washington D.C.; prepared for U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, and Federal Tsunami Bibliography, 1962-1976, at the Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 1980, various International Tsunami Information Center (ITIC); pagination, maps, plans handwritten index card form, about 3,000 citations of tsunami-related papers, in English, or other Designing for Tsunamis: Background Papers, National languages with English titles or abstracts. Note in Tsunami Mitigation Program (NOAA, USGS, FEMA, NSF, Tsunami Newsletter, Vol. 13, No. 2, July 1980, p. 28 Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington); seven
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