西暦1700年のみなしご津波：親地震は北米西海岸にいた The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 : Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America (Professional Paper) （Bilingual）

Atwater, Brian F. (EDT)/ Satoko, Musumi-Rokkaku/ Kenji, Satake

Univ of Washington Pr（2005/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 133 p.／サイズ 325 illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780295985350
• DDC分類 551.2209795

基本説明

Published with U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior.

Full 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

Contents

Introduction1. Unearthed earthquakes2. The orphan tsunami--Kuwagasaki--Tsugaruishi--Otsuchi--Nakaminato--Miho--Tanabe3. The orphan's parentAcknowledgmentsAuthorsReferencesIndex