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The Tsunami Risks Project

This website, the result of the Tsunami Risks project, seeks to introduce the insurance industry to the complexity of tsunami and the wide range of phenomena that can cause them, and to explore the implications for estimation of tsunami hazards, frequency-magnitude distributions and evaluations of the direct and indirect insurance risks that they present.
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The arrival of a wave at Island of Oahu, Hawaii, about 3600km from the source of 1957 Aleutian Islands tsunami.
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We look at subjects ranging from how tsunami are generated and propagate across the oceans; to the mechanisms by which they cause damage when they make landfall; to the means by which disaster planning can reduce the economic losses that result; and to the sources of post-disaster information and mapping which can be consulted to validate tsunami-related insurance claims.

The Tsunami Risks Project is sponsored by The Tsunami Initiative and the UK's Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Research has been conducted by the Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre at University College London, and the Centre for Quaternary Science and the Coventry Centre for Disaster Management at Coventry University.


 

 

 

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