The physics is described of tsunami formation by sources of nonseis-mic origin: landslides, volcanic eruptions, meteorological causes and cosmic bodies falling into the ocean. Short descriptions are given of certain remarkable historical events (with the exception of cosmogenic tsunamis). Approaches to the mathematical description of tsunami generation by these sources are expounded. Basic regularities, relating parameters of a source and of the tsunami wave generated by it are presented.
Keywords
- Tsunami generation
- gravitational surface wave
- earthquake
- landslide
- slump
- mud flow
- river tsunami
- erosion
- sedimentary layer
- viscous fluid
- long waves
- Froude number
- volcano
- volcanic eruption
- caldera collapse
- explosive eruption
- underwater volcano
- pyroclastic flow
- equivalent source
- stationary-phase method
- meteotsunami
- anemobaric waves
- resonance
- Proudman resonance
- internal waves
- storm surges
- tension of friction
- atmospheric pressure
- long-wave theory
- meteorite
- cosmogenic tsunami
- asteroid
- kinetic energy
- parametrization
- numerical simulation
- dispersion
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