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Tsunamis in the European-Mediterranean Region : from historical record to risk mitigation /
Tsunamis in the European-Mediterranean Region: From Historical Record to Risk Mitigation provides readers with a much needed, reliable, and up-to-date history of the region, including descriptions and parameters of the main events from pre-history to the present that are supported by parametric cata...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1
- Tsunamis in the Global Ocean; 1.1
- Tsunamis and Megatsunamis; 1.2
- Tsunami record and impact; 1.3
- Tsunami sources and generation mechanisms; 1.4
- Tsunami physical properties: a few elements; 1.5
- Tsunami quantification; 1.5.1
- Earlier Scales; 1.5.2
- The New Papadopoulos-Imamura Intensity Scale; 1.6
- The December 26, 2004 devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean; 1.7
- The 2011 devastating tsunami in Japan; 1.8
- Tsunami early warning systems
- 1.8.1
- Requirements, Technologies, Current Practices1.8.2
- Near-Field Tsunami Early Warning; 1.9
- Lessons learned from near-field early warnings: the Japanese experience; 1.9.1
- Tsunami Arrival in 25 Min; 1.9.2
- Tsunami Arrival in 5 Min; Chapter 2
- Historical and Geological Evidence of Tsunamis in Europe and the Mediterranean; 2.1
- Introduction; 2.2
- Historical sources; 2.2.1
- Eastern Mediterranean Basin; 2.2.1.1
- Hellenic Arc; 2.2.1.2
- Aegean Sea; 2.2.1.3
- Tectonic Rifts of Corinth and Evoikos Gulfs, Central Greece; 2.2.1.4
- Cyprean Arc and Levantine Sea
- 2.2.2
- Marmara Sea and Black Sea2.2.3
- Tyrrhenian Sea, Calabrian Arc, and Adriatic Sea; 2.2.4
- Western Mediterranean Basin; 2.2.5
- North East Atlantic Ocean and North Sea; 2.2.5.1
- South West Iberian Margin; 2.2.5.2
- British Isles and North Sea; 2.3
- Geological and archeological signatures; 2.3.1
- Onshore Signature; 2.3.2
- Medium-Fine Grained Deposits; 2.3.3
- The Stratigraphic Record; 2.3.3.1
- Mediterranean and Marmara Sea; 2.3.3.2
- North East Atlantic, North Sea, Baltic Sea; 2.3.4
- Boulders and Megaclasts; 2.3.5
- Geomorphological Imprints; 2.3.6
- Offshore Signatures
- 2.4
- Instrumental recordsChapter 3
- Impact of Tsunamis; 3.1
- Introduction; 3.2
- Effects of some important tsunamis; 3.2.1
- 426 BC, North Evoikos Gulf, Central Greece; 3.2.2
- July 21, 365, Western Hellenic Arc; 3.2.3
- 544 or 545, Bulgarian Black Sea; 3.2.4
- 556, August, Kos Island, Dodecenese Island Complex, Greece; 3.2.5
- January 18, 746, Levantine Sea; 3.2.6
- May 20, 1202, Cyprus and Levantine Sea; 3.2.7
- August 8, 1303, Eastern Hellenic Arc; 3.2.8
- October 14, 1344 (or 1343), Marmara Sea; 3.2.9
- September 10, 1509, Marmara Sea; 3.2.10
- March 9, 1630, Western Hellenic Arc
- 3.2.11
- September 29, 1650 (Old Style), Kolumbo Volcano, South Aegean Sea3.2.12
- January 11, 1693, Eastern Sicily; 3.2.13
- January 7, 1731, Storfjorden, Norway; 3.2.14
- November 1, 1755, South West Iberia; 3.2.15
- February 6, 1783, Messina Straits; 3.2.16
- February 23, 1887, Ligurian Sea; 3.2.17
- December 28, 1908, Messina Straits; 3.2.18
- February 9, 1948, Karpathos Island, Eastern Hellenic Arc; 3.2.19
- July 9, 1956, Cyclades Islands, South Aegean Sea; 3.2.20
- February 7, 1963, Western Corinth Gulf; 3.2.21
- August 17, 1999, Izmit Bay, Marmara Sea
- 3.2.22
- December 30, 2002, Stromboli