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- Title
- Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America.
- File
- PB2006100049.pdf
- Author(s)
- Atwater, B. F.; Satoko, M. R.; Kenji, S.; Yoshinobu, T.; Kazue, U.
- Source
- January 2005, 148 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- ['PP-1707', 'ISBN-0-295-98535-6']
- Abstract
- One winter's night in the year 1700, a mysterious tsunami flooded fields and washed away houses in Japan. It arrived without the warning that a nearby earthquake usually provides. Samurai, merchants, and villagers recorded the event, but nearly three centuries would pass before discoveries in North America revealed the tsunami's source. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 tells this scientific detective story through clues from both sides of the Pacific. The evidence uncovered tells of a catastrophe, a century before Lewis and Clark, that now helps guide preparations for future earthquakes and tsunamis in the United States and Canada.
- Keywords
- Orphan Tsunami of 1700; Natural disasters; Catastrophes; North America; Narratives; Tsunamis; Japan; Earthquakes