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Confirmation of the impact origin of the Late Ordovician Tvären impact structure (southeast Sweden) and emplacement of impactites in a marine setting

open access: yesMeteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The Tvären structure in southeastern Sweden has been listed as a confirmed marine‐target impact structure for decades. However, to date, no measurements and/or indexed data of planar deformation features in quartz grains from the structure have been published or any other unequivocal evidence of impact.
Katarzyna J. Gajewska   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

BRIEF HISTORY OF EARLY PIONEERING TSUNAMI RESEARCH – Part A [PDF]

open access: yesScience of Tsunami Hazards, 2018
The year 2015 marked the 50th anniversary of operations of the International Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific Ocean - which officially begun in 1965.
George Pararas-Carayannis
doaj  

Peran Hukum Adat dalam Penanggulangan Bencana Gempa Bumi dan Tsunami Aceh

open access: yesKanun, 2014
In the wake of earthquake and tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia, Desember 26th 2004, it caused almost all village governance. It is the lawest structure of governance based on customary law. Its community may apply the law to manage their community relationship
Taqwaddin Husin, Teuku Alvisyahrin
doaj   +1 more source

A review of the supercritical state of eruption‐fed volcanic density currents in subaerial and subaqueous settings

open access: yesSedimentology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Subaerial Pyroclastic Density Currents (PDCs) and Subaqueous Eruption‐Fed Density Currents (SEFDCs) produced during volcanic eruptions can present major hazards to surrounding communities and ecosystems. The bedforms deposited by these volcanic density currents can provide insights into the nature of transport and depositional processes, which
Shannon E. Frey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Formation process of the gravel‐dominated deposit from the 2011 Tohoku‐oki tsunami in Ofunato, northeastern Japan, inferred by integrating sedimentology and tsunami modelling

open access: yesSedimentology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tsunami deposits serve as geological records of past events and are essential for understanding the occurrence and dynamics of tsunamis. However, conventional research has largely focused on sandy and boulder deposits, leaving gravel‐dominated tsunami deposits comparatively underexplored; furthermore, their characteristics and formation ...
Hidetoshi Masuda   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM IN THE PACIFIC: Brief Historical Review of its Establishment and Institutional Support [PDF]

open access: yesScience of Tsunami Hazards, 2015
The year 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of operations of the International Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific Ocean. The present report describes briefly the establishment of the rudimentary early tsunami warning system in 1948 by the USA after the ...
George Pararas-Carayannis
doaj  

Post-event field survey of 28 September 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami

open access: yesNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2019
. An earthquake with a magnitude of Mw=7.5 that occurred in Sulawesi, Indonesia, on 28 September 2018 triggered liquefaction and tsunamis that caused severe damage and many casualties.
W. Widiyanto   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Modelling Charitable Donations to an Unexpected Natural Disaster: Evidence from the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics [PDF]

open access: yes
Using household-level data, we explore the relationship between donations to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster and other charitable donations.
Brown, Sarah   +2 more
core  

Tsunamis

open access: yes, 2010
A tsunami is a sea wave or series of waves produced by large disturbances of the sea floor that are of relatively short duration. Such disturbances cause the water column to move vertically and the resulting wave energy to spread outwards across the ocean surface at high speed.
openaire   +1 more source

A post-tsunami assessment of coastal living resources of Langkawi Archipelago, Peninsular Malaysia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Rapid and detailed post-tsunami surveys carried out in the Langkawi archipelago in January 2005 showed that the coral reefs dOld_ID not suffer any significant structural damage.
Affendi, Y.A.   +5 more
core  

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