Pacific Region Ocean Sciences Research Activities

In the first part, you could find the basic physics of tsunamis, big historical tsunami events, the local tsunami source - Cascadia subduction zone - in coastal British Columbia and some useful links to additional  information on Tsunamis including how to protect yourself from tsunamis.

The second part introduces the tsunami model, and displays the animations of modelling results.

People who are working on tsunami research at IOS/PGC and other organizations:

Recent Publications

Rabinovich, A. B. and R. E. Thomson. 2006. The 26 December 2004 Sumatra tsunami: Analysis of tide gauge data from the World Ocean. Part 1. Indian Ocean and South Africa. Pure and Applied Geophysics (accepted).

Cherniawsky, J. Y., V. V. Titov, Wang, K. and J.-Y. Li. 2006. Numerical simulations of tsunami waves and currents for southern Vancouver Island from a Cascadia megathrust earthquake. Pure and Applied Geophysics (accepted).

Gower, J. F. 2005. Jason 1 detects December 26, 2004 tsunami. Eos. 86(4):37-38.

Fine, I. V., A. B. Rabinovich, B. D. Bornhold, R.E . Thomson and E. A. Kulikov. 2005. The Grand Banks landslide-generated tsunami of November 18, 1929: Preliminary analysis and numerical modeling. Marine Geology. 215:45-57.

Fine, I.V., Rabinovich, A. B. and R. E. Thomson. 2005.The dual source region for the 2004 Sumatra tsunami. Geophysical Research Letters. 32. L16602.

Kulikov, E. A., Rabinovich, A. B. and R. E. Thomson. 2005. Estimation of Tsunami Risk for the Coasts of Peru and Northern Chile. Natural Hazards. 35:185–209.  

Kulikov, E. A., Rabinovich, A. B. and R. E. Thomson. 2005. On Long-Term Tsunami Forecasting. Oceanology. 45(4):488–499. (Translated from Okeanologiya. 45(4):518–530).

Titov, V., Rabinovich, A. B., Mofjeld, H.O., R.E. Thomson and Frank I. González. 2005. The Global Reach of the 26 December 2004 Sumatra Tsunami. Science. 309. September 23, 2005. 

Rabinovich, A. B. and F. E. Stephenson. 2004. Longwave Measurements for the Coast of British Columbia and Improvements to the Tsunami Warning Capability. Natural Hazards. 32:313–343.

Liu, P. L.-F., Monserrat, S., Marcos, M. and A. B. Rabinovich. 2003. Coupling between two inlets: Observation and modeling. J. Geophys. Res. 108(C3):3069, doi:10.1029/2002JC001478. (Correction).

Fine, I. V., Rabinovich, A. B., Thomson, R.E. and E. A. Kulikov. 2002. Numerical Modeling of Tsunami Generation by Submarine and Subaerial Landslides. In:  Ahmet C. et al. [Eds.].  NATO Science Series, Underwater Ground Failures On Tsunami Generation, Modeling, Risk and Mitigation. Kluwer.

Rabinovich, A. B.;, Thomson, R. E., Kulikov, E. A., Bornhold, B. D., and I. V. Fine. 1999. The landslide-generated tsunami of November 3, 1994 in Skagway Harbor, Alaska: A case study. Geophysical Research Letters. 26(19):3009-3012.

Monserrat, S., Rabinovich, A. B.and B. Casas. 1998. On the reconstruction of the transfer function for atmospherically generated seiches. Geophysical Research Letters. 25(12):2197-2200.

Rabinovich A.B. and S. Monserrat. 1998. Generation of Meteorological Tsunamis (Large Amplitude Seiches) Near the Balearic and Kuril Islands. Natural Hazards. 18(1):27-55(29).

Rabinovich, A. B. 1997. Spectral analysis of tsunami waves: Separation of source and topography effects. J. Geophys. Res. 102(C6):12,663–12,676. 

Kulikov, E. A., A. B. Rabinovich, R. E. Thomson and B. B. Bornhold. 1996. The landslide tsunami of November 3, 1994, Skagway Harbor, Alaska. J. Geophys. Res. 101:6609-6615. 

Rabinovich, A. B. and S. Monserrat. 1996. Meteorological tsunamis near the balearic and Kuril Islands :descriptive and statistical analysis. Natural hazards. 13(1):55-90 (1 p.3/4).