Millennial paleotsunami history at Minna Island, southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2020 Huge tsunami waves have repeatedly bombarded the southern end of the Ryukyu Islands (Miyako and Yaeyama Islands, southwestern Japan) at several-hundred-year intervals.
Ryosuke Fujita +3 more
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Tsunami preparedness communication : understanding the business audience : a research report completed in partial fulfilment of the Master of Communication degree at Massey University, Wellington [PDF]
, 2018 Previous research conducted by GNS Science pre and post the 2016 Kaikōura Quake identified that the New Zealand public does not sufficiently understand the risks posed by tsunami hazards, and in particular there is limited awareness about the different ...
Sheridan, Adrienne
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Probabilistic tsunami damage assessment considering stochastic source models:Application to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake [PDF]
, 2015 A computational framework for probabilistic tsunami risk assessment due to a mega-thrust subduction earthquake is developed and is applied to the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami from retrospective viewpoints.
Goda, Katsu +3 more
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Early‐Life Disaster Exposure and the Investment Response to Monetary Policy
Financial Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We place CEOs' formative experiences at the center of analyzing how firms respond to monetary policy. Specifically, we examine how early‐life exposure to natural disasters shapes CEOs’ investment behavior following monetary shocks. CEOs with exposure to moderate natural disasters during their formative years exhibit stronger risk‐taking ...
Samer Adra +3 more
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Overreliance on Orthographic Similarity in L2‐Japanese Conceptual Processing by L1‐Chinese Learners
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Orthographic and phonological similarities between first (L1) and second (L2) languages can facilitate L2 processing. Particularly, L1‐Chinese learners of L2‐Japanese can benefit from the shared morphosyllabic Chinese characters (Japanese kanji/Chinese hanzi) because of their similar orthographies.
Xuehan Zhao, Kexin Xiong, Sachiko Kiyama
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MASS MEDIA ROLE IN PROMOTION OF EDUCATION, AWARENESS AND SUSTAINABLE PREPAREDNESS FOR TSUNAMIS AND OTHER MARINE HAZARDS [PDF]
Science of Tsunami Hazards, 2014 Several mega-tsunamis in the last decade have caused unprecedented deaths and destruction in many countries bordering the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
George Pararas-Carayannis
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Potential Economic Losses due to Earthquakes Induced Building Damages in Ambon-Indonesia: An Event Based Probabilistic Seismic Hazards Assessment Approach [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesAmbon, in the eastern part of Indonesia, has historical records of damaging earthquake events. In the last ten years, at least there were two times of earthquakes that caused severe damages on the city.
Khalqillah Aulia +6 more
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Impact of tsunamis on wave energy converters [PDF]
, 2012 With an increasing emphasis on renewable energy resources, wave power technology is fast becoming a realistic solution. However, the recent tsunami in Japan was a harsh reminder of the ferocity of the ocean.
Christodoulides, Paul
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International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates an extension of the vehicle routing problem in which, in addition to minimizing the distance traveled, the sequencing of customer visits is subject to precedence constraints that impose visiting priorities among customers.
Eduardo dos Santos Teixeira +1 more
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Americans Under Age 40 Are as Likely to Donate to Japan Disaster Relief Through Electronic Means as Traditional Means [PDF]
, 2011 Presents survey findings about giving online or by cellphone, as opposed to by phone, mail, or in person, to relief efforts after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Kristen Purcell, Michael Dimock
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