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Tsunami as a Destructive Aftermath of Oceanic Impacts

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Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society

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Tsunamis belong to the long-period oceanic waves generated by underwater earthquakes, submarine or subaerial landslides or volcanic eruptions. They are among the most dangerous and complex natural phenomena, being responsible for great losses of life and extensive destruction of property in many coastal areas of the World’s ocean. The tsunami phenomenon includes three overlapping but quite distinct physical stages: the generation by any external force that disturbs a water column, the propagation with a high speed in the open ocean and, finally, the run-up in the shallow coastal water and inundation of dry land (Gonzalez, 1999). Most tsunamis occur in the Pacific, but they are known in all other areas of the World including the Atlantic and the Indian oceans, the Mediterranean and many marginal seas. Tsunami-like phenomena can occur even in lakes, large man-made water reservoirs and large rivers.

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  1. Tsunami Laboratory, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, prospect Akademika Lavrentjeva, 6, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    V. K. Gusiakov

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  1. Geological Survey of Canada Landslides and Geotechnics ESS/GSC-CNCB/GSC-NC/EDS, Natural Resources Canada, 601 Booth Street, K1A 0E8, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Peter T. Bobrowsky

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Gusiakov, V.K. (2007). Tsunami as a Destructive Aftermath of Oceanic Impacts. In: Bobrowsky, P.T., Rickman, H. (eds) Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32711-0_14

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