Field trip: Alaska 1964 earthquake and tsunami
The SSA 2014 conference in Anchorage, Alaska is over and so is the post-meeting excursion. Our friend and colleague Gösta was attending this field trip on the environmental effects of the Great Alaska...
View ArticleAn Indian Ocean tsunami triggered remotely by the onshore M7.7 earthquake in...
On 24 September, 2013, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred in Balochistan, Pakistan. The quake caused intense ground motions and had dramatic consequences – hundreds of people died, and more than...
View ArticleUpcoming tsunami conferences
Several meetings on tsunamis will be held during the next months, make sure not to miss them. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. This event was not only one of the...
View ArticleA new Nuclear Power Plant near Karachi
Karachi is the most populated city in Pakistan with around 24,000,000 inhabitants – just as many as Australia. Since many years a nuclear power plant (NPP) is located just a few miles outside the city...
View ArticleRemembering the 1945 Makran Tsunami – Free book: interviews with survivors
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Makran Earthquake and Tsunami. On 27 November, 1945, an earthquake of magnitude Mw8.1 occurred at the Makran Subduction Zone offshore Pakistan. A large...
View ArticleGuest blog by Bastian Schneider (RWTH Aachen University): Tsunami hazard in...
Tsunamis are a very real threat in the Indian Ocean. Most people will immediately think of the 2004 tsunami and the Sumatra subduction zone, but the Arabian Sea has seen strong tsunamis in the past,...
View ArticleIGCP Project 639 “Sea-level changes: From minutes to millenia”– First Meeting...
The IGCP project 639 deals with sea-level changes, coastal earthquakes, and inundation by storms and tsunami: “Sea-level changes: From minutes to millenia”. The first meeting in Oman will take place...
View Article5th International Tsunami Field Symposium, 3-7 September 2017, Lisbon/Algarve
The 5th International Tsunami Field Symposium will be held from 3-7 September, 2017, in Lisbon, Portugal. In addition to the scientific sessions an interesting 3-days field trip will take the...
View ArticleAGU Session on Interdisciplinary Tsunami Science
Our colleague Jessica Pilarczyk send us the following message regarding an AGU session on Interdisciplinary Tsunami Science: Dear paleoseismicity.org members, We invite you to submit an abstract to the...
View ArticleQuaternary sea-level change along the coastline of Oman
Text: Gösta Hoffmann with contributions by Michaela Falkenroth, Valeska Decker, Bastian Schneider and Christoph Grützner “The beaches in Oman are pristine.” What sounds like an introductory sentence...
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