Tsunamis: Causes, Characteristics, Warnings & Protection

ISBN-13: 9781608763603 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 261 str.

Neil Veitch;Gordon Jaffray

Opis

A tsunami is a series of water waves that is caused when a large volume of a body of water, such as an ocean, is rapidly displaced. This book presents field survey results on tsunami arrival times, wave run-up heights, inundation distances and damage to properties on beaches due to tsunamis.