Earthquakes: Simulations, Sources and Tsunamis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tiampo, Kristy F. (Editor), Weatherley, Dion K. (Editor), Weinstein, Stuart A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2008.
• Series: Pageoph Topical Volumes
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geophysics.; Oceanography.; Geotechnical engineering.; Earth Sciences.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Earth Sciences, general.; Geophysics/Geodesy.

In recent years, large earthquakes in the circum-Pacific region have repeatedly demonstrated its particular vulnerability to this potentially devastating natural hazard, including the M ~ 9.2 Northern Sumatra earthquake and tsunami of 2004 which resulted in the deaths of nearly 300,000 people. In th...