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T S U N A M I I N J A PA N
The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake of magnitude 9.0(Mw) triggered a massive
tsunami on March 11th, 2011 that caused over 14,000 deaths with 13,000 people still
missing as of April 21st, 2011, making it the deadliest tsunami in recorded history in Japan.
Written by:
Prof. Hitoshi Tanaka
Chairman, IAHR-APD
Department of Civil
Engineering
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
tanaka@tsunami2.civil.tohoku.ac.jp
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tsunami.
Fig. 4
Pre- and post-tsunami
aerial photographs on
Sendai Coast
(a)
Pre-tsunami aerial
photograph
(March 6, 2011)
(b)
Post-tsunami
photograph
(March 12, 2011)
(Ref.5)
References
1) The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami Joint Survey Group:
http://www.coastal.jp/ttjt/index.php
2) Minoura, K. et al.: The 869 Jogan tsunami deposit and recurrence
interval of large-scale tsunami on the Pacific coast of northeast
Japan, Journal of Natural Disaster, Vol.23, No.2, pp.83-88, 2001.
3) Tanaka, H. et al.: Field measurement and numerical studies on the
tsunami propagation into upstream of rivers, Proc. 33rd IAHR
Congress, 2011.(in press)
4) Tanaka, H. et al.: Sediment intrusion into Gamo Lagoon by wave
overtopping, Proc. 28th ICCE, pp.823-835, 2002.
5) Geospatial Information Authority of Japan:
http://saigai.gsi.go.jp/h23taiheiyo-ok/photo/photo_dj/index.html
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100,000 people), the firebombing of Tokyo in 1942-45, and the
eastern part of Japan facing the Pacific Ocean, almost 500km long along
the coast in the mainland of Japan. During the Kobe earthquake, for
example, damage was limited in the Kobe area, while in other big cities
Kobe City. The widely distributed tsunami disaster, combined with the
the alarm and emergency systems worked well during the recent
Sendai earthquake and do you think that some things could have
encountered this time. Last year, there was another tsunami propagated
form the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean in Chile. At that time, the
tsunami height was not as high as the 2011 tsunami. Based on that
increase its accuracy. During the afterquakes in 2011, there have been
experience last year, there were many people who believed that this years
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problem is how to set condition for the highest possible tsunami that
coastal area facing the Pacific Ocean, which could be hit by another big
earthquake and tsunami in the near future, and subsequently the electric
tsunamis return period is around one thousand years, for which we dont
company accepted this request. About the half of Japanese people say it
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one hundred years), which can be used for design of structures. Level 2
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the environment.
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The crisis at the Daiichi plant appears to have been partly a result
been damaged, we already started April semester with one month delay
faculty and staff members already move to new offices located in our
For the supposed condition defined in terms of tsunami height (5.7m), the
and it will be completed in June this year. Thus our educational and
laboratorys rebuilding.
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Written by:
Sam Jones and agencies - guardian.co.uk
Copyright Guardian News & Media Ltd 2011.
Reprinted with permission
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CONFERENCE REPORT
The first edition of the international symposium on two-phase modelling for sediment
transport (including gravel, sand, mud, etc.) in rivers, estuaries and coastal zones under
the action of currents and/or waves was held at the EDF R&D site of Chatou (France)
from 26th to 28th April 2011.
Written by:
Michel Benoit, Director of the Saint-Venant
Laboratory for Hydraulics
michel.benoit@saint-venant-lab.fr
seawaters, etc.
dan.nguyen@saint-venant-lab.fr
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http://www.shf.asso.fr/110-1-
les_manifestations-16.html
in four sessions:
n SHF : http://www.shf.asso.fr
also formulated.
n AIRH : http://www.iahr.net/
http://www.saint-venant-lab.fr
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P E O P L E & P L AC E S
Prof. Piasecki
moves from Drexel
Michael Piasecki has
been appointed
Associate professor
at the Civil
Engineering
Department in the
City College,
New York
Business Development
Palestinians.
Business Development.
Research. One
of the foremost
environmental
activists in Israel,
Federico Estrada
of the Israel
Union for
Environmental
Research Centre of
Ministery, Spain.
he is the founder
founder of the
co-chair.
What is
an engineer?
The ideal engineer is a
composite ... He is not a
scientist, he is not a
mathematician, he is not
a sociologist or a writer;
but he may use the
knowledge and
techniques of any or all of
these disciplines in
solving engineering
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A Sad Moment...
Prof. Harold J. Schoemaker, IAHR
Honorary Member, has passed away
Prof. Schoemaker died in Delft on 15th May
2011. Prof. Schoemaker was Director of WL
Delft Hydraulics (now Deltares) in 1960 until
1971. He was elected Secretary Treasurer of
IAHR at the 8th Congress in Montreal in 1959
taking the place of Thijsse and occupied the
post until 1979. To see the full obituary go to
www.iahr.org under obituaries.
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