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Dealing With Tsunami Risk - A Case Study For Thailand, Kjell Karlsrud, Farrokh Nadim, Hilmar Bungum, Carl B. Harbitz
Dealing With Tsunami Risk - A Case Study For Thailand, Kjell Karlsrud, Farrokh Nadim, Hilmar Bungum, Carl B. Harbitz
Geohazards
The December 26 2004 tsunami event devastated large areas along the coastlines of Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and India, and even some parts of the east African coastline. It is a great challenge to the authorities in the countries affected by the tsunami to deal with the future risk of tsunami events and how to rehabilitate the devastated areas under consideration of that risk. On initiative from the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), a project has been initiated to help develop a rehabilitation strategy in Thailand, but it is also intended as serve as an example project for other countries …
On Tsunami Risk Assessment For The West Coast Of Thailand, Farrokh Nadim, Thomas Glade
On Tsunami Risk Assessment For The West Coast Of Thailand, Farrokh Nadim, Thomas Glade
Geohazards
The catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 raised a number of questions for scientists and politicians on how to deal with the tsunami risk in coastal regions. This paper discusses the challenges in tsunami risk evaluation and presents the results of a tsunami risk mitigation study for the west coast of Thailand. It is argued that a scenario-based approach is particularly well suited for evaluation of the risk posed by tsunamis. The approach consists of considering scenarios of plausible extreme, tsunami-generating events, computing the tsunami inundation levels caused by these events, estimating the possible range of casualties for …
Tsunami Relief Work - Biopesticide Spray Operations - A Case Study, Kadarkarai Murugan
Tsunami Relief Work - Biopesticide Spray Operations - A Case Study, Kadarkarai Murugan
Geohazards
Tsunami occurred on 26th December, 2004 and in India more than 8000 people were killed due to the massive attack. The worst affected districts in Tamil Nadu were Viz., Velankanni, Nagapattinam and Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India. Official sources said that due to massive death of animals and human beings, the public health has been affected/spoiled and it will cause further outbreak of infectious diseases like diarrhea, cholera and mosquito transmitting diseases. After a week there were incidents of outbreak of mosquito transmitting diseases such as malaria, and dengue. Tsunami had caused a mixing of animal debris in the breeding ground …
A Hydrodynamics Perspective For The 2004 Megatsunami, Costas E. Synolakis
A Hydrodynamics Perspective For The 2004 Megatsunami, Costas E. Synolakis
Geohazards
The megatsunami of 26 December 2004 was the first tsunami with transoceanic impact since the 1960 Great Chilean and 1964 Great Alaskan tsunamis. Because of the distribution of deaths among a large portion of the nations of the world, the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami is the first universal natural disaster of modern times. For the purpose of adequate mitigation of future tsunamis, it is important to understand which factors control most critically the final characteristics of the flooding, namely runup and inundation. Their successful modeling requires not only a credible database of inundation parameters, against which models can be tested …