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Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences

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Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences

Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research ((NTHR,volume 31))

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Submarine mass movements represent major offshore geohazards due to their destructive and tsunami-generation potential. This potential poses a threat to human life as well as to coastal, near shore and offshore engineering structures. Recent examples of catastrophic submarine landslide events that affected human populations (including tsunamis) are numerous; e.g., Nice airport in 1979 (Dan et al. 2007), Finneidfjord in 1996 (e.g., L’Heureux et al., this volume, Steiner et al., this volume), Papua-New Guinea in 1998 (Tappin et al. 2001), Stromboli in 2002 (Chiocci et al. 2008), and the 2006 and 2009 failures in the submarine cable network around Taiwan (Hsu et al. 2008). The Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011 also generated submarine landslides that may have amplified effects of the devastating tsunami as shown in Fryer et al. (2004). Given that 30% of the World’s population lives within 60 km of the coast, the hazard posed by submarine landslides is expected to grow as global sea level rises. In addition, the deposits resulting from such processes provide-various types of constraints to offshore development (Shipp et al. 2004), and have significant implications for non-renewable energy resource exploration and production (Weimer and Shipp 2004; Beaubouef and Abreu 2010).

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  1. Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto, 615-8540, Japan

    Yasuhiro Yamada

  2. Fukada Geological Institute, 2-13-12 Honkomagome, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-0021, Japan

    Kiichiro Kawamura

  3. Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, Tsukuba Central 7, 1-1-1, Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8567, Japan

    Ken Ikehara

  4. University of Tsukuba, Yokodai 1-127-2-C-740, Tsukubamirai, 300-2358, Japan

    Yujiro Ogawa

  5. Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 37–49, 08003, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

    Roger Urgeles

  6. Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada – Atlantic, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Dr, Dartmouth, NS, B2Y 4A2, Canada

    David Mosher

  7. U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, 384 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, USA

    Jason Chaytor

  8. Geological Institute, ETH Zurich, Sonneggstrasse 5, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland

    Michael Strasser

  9. MARUM – Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Michael Strasser

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  1. , Department of Earth Resources Engineerin, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo, Kyoto, 615-8540, Japan

    Yasuhiro Yamada

  2. Fukada Geological Institute, 2-13-12 Honkomagome, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-0021, Japan

    Kiichiro Kawamura

  3. Geological Survey of Japan, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8567, Japan

    Ken Ikehara

  4. University of Tsukuba, Yokodai 1-127-2-C-740, Tsukubamirai, 300-2358, Japan

    Yujiro Ogawa

  5. Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49, Barcelona, 08003, Spain

    Roger Urgeles

  6. Natural Resources Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Geological Survey of Canada, Challenge Dr. 1, Dartmouth, B2Y 4A2, Canada

    David Mosher

  7. Woods Hole Science Center, United States Geological Survey, Woods Hole Road 384, Woods Hole, 02543, Massachusetts, USA

    Jason Chaytor

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    Michael Strasser

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Yamada, Y. et al. (2012). Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences. In: Yamada, Y., et al. Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2162-3_1

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