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Introduction to “Tsunami Science: Ten Years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. Volume II.”

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Twenty papers on the study of tsunamis and respective tsunamigenic earthquakes are included in Volume II of the PAGEOPH topical issue “Tsunami Science: Ten Years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami”. The papers presented in this second of two special volumes of Pure and Applied Geophysics reflect the state of tsunami science during this time, including five papers devoted to new findings specifically in the Indian Ocean. Two papers compile results from global observations and eight papers cover Pacific Ocean studies, focusing mainly on the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Remaining papers in this volume describe studies in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea and tsunami source studies. Overall, the volume not only addresses the pivotal 2004 Indian Ocean and 2011 Tohoku tsunamis, but also examines the tsunami hazard posed to other critical coasts in the world.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Dr. Renata Dmowska, the Editor-in-Chief for Topical Issues of PAGEOPH for arranging and encouraging us to organize these topical volumes. We also thank Ms. Priyanka Ganesh at the Journal’s Editorial Office of Springer for her timely editorial assistance. Finally, we would like to thank all the authors and reviewers who contributed to these topical volumes.

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  1. Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Institute of Ocean Sciences, 9860 West Saanich Rd., Sidney, BC, V8L 4B2, Canada

    Alexander B. Rabinovich

  2. P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 36 Nakhimovsky Pr., Moscow, 117997, Russia

    Alexander B. Rabinovich

  3. U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Rd., MS 999, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA

    Eric L. Geist

  4. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    Hermann M. Fritz

  5. eCoast Ltd., Box 151, Raglan, 3225, New Zealand

    Jose C. Borrero

  6. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Jose C. Borrero

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Rabinovich, A.B., Geist, E.L., Fritz, H.M. et al. Introduction to “Tsunami Science: Ten Years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. Volume II.”. Pure Appl. Geophys. 172, 3265–3270 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00024-015-1175-x

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