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Sri Lanka Field Survey after the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
James Goff,Philip L.-F. Liu,Bretwood Higman,Robert A. Morton,Robert A. Morton,Bruce E. Jaffe,Harindra Fernando,Patrick J. Lynett,Hermann M. Fritz,Costas E. Synolakis,Costas E. Synolakis,Starin Fernando +11 more
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In this article, a team surveyed the effects of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on the southern coast of Oman and found that runup and inundation were obtained at 41 sites, extending over a total of 750 km of shoreline.Abstract:
In August 2005, a team surveyed the effects of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami on the southern coast of Oman. Runup and inundation were obtained at 41 sites, extending over a total of 750 km of shoreline. Measured runup ranged from 3.25 m in the vicinity of Salalah to a negligible value at one location on Masirah Island. In general, the largest values were found in the western part of the surveyed area. Significant incidents were documented in the port of Salalah, where a 285-m-long vessel broke its moorings and drifted inside and outside the port, and another ship struck the breakwater while attempting to enter the harbor. The general hazard to Oman from tsunamis may be greatest from the neighboring Makran subduction zone in western Pakistan.read more
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Source constraints and model simulation of the December 26, 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami
TL;DR: A primary and secondary radar system utilizing a common directional scanning antenna are located in an interrogator in order to obtain navigational information and identity for each of the interrogated transponders of the objects of interest.
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Boulder and fine sediment transport and deposition by the 2004 tsunami in Lhok Nga (western Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia): A coupled offshore–onshore model
Raphaël Paris,Jérôme Fournier,Emmanuel Poizot,Samuel Etienne,Julie Morin,Franck Lavigne,Patrick Wassmer +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate sediment transport and deposition during the December 26, 2004 tsunami inflow and outflow in the Lhok Nga Bay, located 10 km west of the city of Banda Aceh (northwest Sumatra, Indonesia).
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Submarine landslide tsunamis: how extreme and how likely?
TL;DR: In this article, a number of examples are presented to substantiate that submarine landslides have occurred along most continental margins and along several volcano flanks, and the need for data acquisition and analyses, laboratory experiments, and more sophisticated numerical modelling for improved understanding and hazard assessment of landslide tsunamis are elaborated.
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Far-field tsunami hazard from mega-thrust earthquakes in the Indian Ocean
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate far-field tsunami hazard in the Indian Ocean Basin based on hydrodynamic simulations of ten case studies of possible mega earthquakes at the major seismic zones surrounding the basin.
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Physical modeling of tsunamis generated by three-dimensional deformable granular landslides
TL;DR: In this paper, a pneumatic landslide generator was used to generate a 3D tsunami wave based on the generalized Froude similarity, and the wave amplitudes, periods, and wavelengths were related to the landslide parameters at impact.
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