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Observations of Tsunamis in Rivers

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Tsunami Propagation in Tidal Rivers

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Tsunami’s journey. How are tsunamis measured? NOAA’s tide gage network. Japan, MLIT network of water level stations. Super-elevation of the rivers’ mean stages during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 1983 Japan Sea tsunami, and the 2011 Tohoku tsunami. History of tsunami observations in the Columbia River. Something odd in these records. Tsunami modulation by tidal phase: is it always this way? Spherical focusing on Japan. Chile 2010 tsunami in Honshu rivers. What does a tsunami in a river look like? The 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami in the Mad River, California. Tsunami bores’ journey up and down the Kitakami River, Japan.

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Notes

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    The wave height about this value was estimated by water marks on coastal cliffs near entrances of Ohtsuchi Bay and Kamaishi Bay in Iwate Prefecture (Mori et al. 2011). A wave height by the coast is not to be confused with a runup height, which reached up to 40 m in this event.

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    Evidence of prehistoric Cascadia tsunamis has also been obtained from lakes, e.g. Kelsey et al. (2005). On other coasts, geological histories of tsunamis have been inferred mostly from beach-ridge plains (Monecke et al. 2008; Jankaew et al. 2008; Sawai et al. 2009), or even found in a cave (Rubin et al. 2017).

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    Event dates throughout the book are given according to GMT zone, unless a different time zone is specified.

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Tolkova, E. (2018). Observations of Tsunamis in Rivers. In: Tsunami Propagation in Tidal Rivers. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73287-9_1

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