Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Tectonic events and nuclear facilities
- 2 The nature of tectonic hazards
- 3 The nature of volcanism
- 4 Tectonic uplift and subsidence
- 5 Glacial isostatic adjustment: implications for glacially induced faulting and nuclear waste repositories
- 6 Using global positioning system data to assess tectonic hazards
- 7 Tectonic setting of volcanic centers in subduction zones: three-dimensional structure of mantle wedge and arc crust
- 8 Conceptual model for small-volume alkali basalt petrogenesis: implications for volcanic hazards at the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository
- 9 Aspects of volcanic hazard assessment for the Bataan nuclear power plant, Luzon Peninsula, Philippines
- 10 Multi-disciplinary probabilistic tectonic hazard analysis
- 11 Tsunami hazard assessment
- 12 Regional-scale volcanology in support of site-specific investigations
- 13 Exploring long-term hazards using a Quaternary volcano database
- 14 Estimating spatial density with kernel methods
- 15 Cox process models for the estimation of long-term volcanic hazard
- 16 Spatial distribution of eruptive centers about the Idaho National Laboratory
- 17 Modeling the flow of basaltic magma into subsurface nuclear facilities
- 18 Intrusion dynamics for volatile-poor basaltic magma into subsurface nuclear installations
- 19 Volcanic risk assessment at Yucca Mountain, NV, USA: integration of geophysics, geology and modeling
- 20 Geological issues in practice: experience in siting US nuclear facilities
- 21 Characterizing active tectonic structures for nuclear facilities in Japan
- 22 Issues for coastal sites
- 23 Stable tectonic settings: designing site investigations to establish the tectonic basis for design and safety evaluation of geological repositories in Scandinavia
- 24 The impact of subsidence, uplift and erosion on geological repositories for radioactive wastes
- 25 Recommendations for assessing volcanic hazards at sites of nuclear installations
- 26 Formal expert assessment in probabilistic seismic and volcanic hazard analysis
- Index
- Map
11 - Tsunami hazard assessment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Tectonic events and nuclear facilities
- 2 The nature of tectonic hazards
- 3 The nature of volcanism
- 4 Tectonic uplift and subsidence
- 5 Glacial isostatic adjustment: implications for glacially induced faulting and nuclear waste repositories
- 6 Using global positioning system data to assess tectonic hazards
- 7 Tectonic setting of volcanic centers in subduction zones: three-dimensional structure of mantle wedge and arc crust
- 8 Conceptual model for small-volume alkali basalt petrogenesis: implications for volcanic hazards at the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository
- 9 Aspects of volcanic hazard assessment for the Bataan nuclear power plant, Luzon Peninsula, Philippines
- 10 Multi-disciplinary probabilistic tectonic hazard analysis
- 11 Tsunami hazard assessment
- 12 Regional-scale volcanology in support of site-specific investigations
- 13 Exploring long-term hazards using a Quaternary volcano database
- 14 Estimating spatial density with kernel methods
- 15 Cox process models for the estimation of long-term volcanic hazard
- 16 Spatial distribution of eruptive centers about the Idaho National Laboratory
- 17 Modeling the flow of basaltic magma into subsurface nuclear facilities
- 18 Intrusion dynamics for volatile-poor basaltic magma into subsurface nuclear installations
- 19 Volcanic risk assessment at Yucca Mountain, NV, USA: integration of geophysics, geology and modeling
- 20 Geological issues in practice: experience in siting US nuclear facilities
- 21 Characterizing active tectonic structures for nuclear facilities in Japan
- 22 Issues for coastal sites
- 23 Stable tectonic settings: designing site investigations to establish the tectonic basis for design and safety evaluation of geological repositories in Scandinavia
- 24 The impact of subsidence, uplift and erosion on geological repositories for radioactive wastes
- 25 Recommendations for assessing volcanic hazards at sites of nuclear installations
- 26 Formal expert assessment in probabilistic seismic and volcanic hazard analysis
- Index
- Map
Summary
No natural disaster in modern history has impacted a broader region, or impacted more lives in more diverse communities, than the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. For many, this disaster redefined the scale of conceivable impacts of natural disasters. The scales of natural processes that contributed to this disaster were equally tremendous, including the magnitude of the tsunamigenic earthquake, the largest on Earth since the Chilean earthquake of 1960; the volume of water displaced during the earthquake and the speed with which the resulting wave could traverse an entire ocean basin; and the force and extent of the wave runup where the tsunami reached coastal areas. Yet on geological timescales, such events are common.
We must prepare for such natural events. In the context of nuclear facilities, preparation involves understanding, or forecasting, the impact of potential tsunami on coastal sites (McKinley and Alexander, Chapter 22, this volume). This includes developing an understanding of the sources of tsunami, the propagation of tsunami waves, and their wave height, wavelength and runup. This chapter reviews tsunami processes, and introduces the concept of probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment, parallel to other types of hazard analysis already common for nuclear facilities.
What is a tsunami?
Tsunami comes from the Japanese word meaning “harbor wave.” In Japanese, the word tsunami is the same in both the singular and plural form. In English tsunamis is often used for the plural, although both tsunami and tsunamis are correct.Atsunami is a series of waves that are rapidly generated when a large volume of water (e.g. a lake, the sea, the ocean) is vertically displaced by an impulse disturbance such as an explosion, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide or meteorite impact.
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- Volcanic and Tectonic Hazard Assessment for Nuclear Facilities , pp. 276 - 306Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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