Tsunami

Construction of the lower tidal lagoon at the Ayla Oasis Development in Aqaba, Jordan provided a unique opportunity to study the 3-D architecture of coastal plain sediment of the northern Gulf of Aqaba. Previous studies of sediment cores had identified a mid-Holocene transgressi…

Public interest in tsunamis has increased dramatically due to the devastating consequences of recent events in Indonesia (2004) and Japan (2011). Efforts are underway by both private industry and the United States federal government to develop probabilistic tsunami hazard assess…

On December 26th, 2004, 280,000 people lost their lives. A massive earthquake struck Indonesia, triggering a tsunami that affected several countries, including Thailand. The disaster had important implications for health status of Thai citizens, as well as health system planning…

Connections to Disaster investigates the behavior of two competing network typologies (decentralized and distributed), in an effort to remap the relationship between architecture and disaster, specifically the tsunami. Fundamentally, the concept of cloud architecture is one of m…

The heavily populated coast of Southern California has been affected by tsunamis several times in the historical past. The hazard associated with nearshore tsunamis has received much less attention than that associated with trans-oceanic events. A review of the offshore geology …

Background. Aceh, Indonesia, was the hardest-hit area in the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and massive tsunami, with more than 500,000 people displaced, 120,000 people dead, and total damages and losses estimated at 4.5 billion. The relief effort following the tsunam…