The orphan tsunami of 1700 : Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in North America みなしご元禄津波 : 親地震は北米西海岸にいた
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The orphan tsunami of 1700 : Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in North America = みなしご元禄津波 : 親地震は北米西海岸にいた
(Geological Survey professional paper, 1707)
U.S. Geological Survey , In association with University of Washington Press, 2005
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The orphan tsunami of 1700
Minashigo Genroku tsunami
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The orphan tsunami of 1700 : Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in North America = ミナシゴ ゲンロク ツナミ : オヤ ジシン ワ ホクベイ ニシカイガン ニ イタ
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Captions and table of contents also in Japanese
Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-123) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted having felt no earthquake; they wondered what had set off the waves but had no way of knowing that the tsunami was spawned during an earthquake along the coast of northwestern North America. This orphan tsunami would not be linked to its parent earthquake until the mid-twentieth century, through an extraordinary series of discoveries in both North America and Japan. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700, now in its second edition, tells this scientific detective story through its North American and Japanese clues. The story underpins many of today's precautions against earthquake and tsunami hazards in the Cascadia region of northwestern North America. The Japanese tsunami of March 2011 called attention to these hazards as a mirror image of the transpacific waves of January 1700. Hear Brian Atwater on NPR with Renee Montagne http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4629401 Replaced by ISBN 9780295998084
Table of Contents
Introduction1. Unearthed earthquakes2. The orphan tsunami--Kuwagasaki--Tsugaruishi--Otsuchi--Nakaminato--Miho--Tanabe3. The orphan's parentAcknowledgmentsAuthorsReferencesIndex
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