Local wisdoms such as a tradition, land-use system and etc. had sometimes mitigated tsunami damages in Indonesia. The effective use of those local wisdoms is strongly desired especially in developing countries, because it is quite difficult for those countries to allocate enough budgets for constructing hard type countermeasures against tsunami. Among local wisdoms against tsunami hazard, this ...

0489 Following last December’s tsunami, Thailand reported 10,385 deaths and missing persons among Thais and foreign tourists, 80% of them in Phang Nga province (Figure 1). These reported tsunami deaths do not include Burmese migrant workers, which one local organisation estimates as being as many as 1,000 individuals [1]. Medical relief to Thai nationals and Western victims was well organised [...

A tsunami warning system based on active database system with satellite derived real-time data of tidal, significant wave height and ocean wind speed as well as assimilation data of sea level changes as one of the global risk management systems is proposed. Also, Geographic Information System (GIS) with free open source software of PostGIS is proposed for active database system. It may be said ...

We report two cases of organizing pneumonia (OP) secondary to the inhalation of the dried tsunami sludge which formed during the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and the consequent tsunami. After the disaster, both of these patients had been engaged in the restoration work. About half a month later, they developed shortness of breath and pulmonary infiltrates. These patients were diagnosed with...

In this paper, we use the approximation of shallow water waves (Margaritondo 2005 Eur. J. Phys. 26 401) to understand the behavior of a tsunami in a variable depth. We deduce the shallow water wave equation and the continuity equation that must be satisfied when a wave encounters a discontinuity in the sea depth. A short explanation about how the tsunami hit the west coast of India is given bas...

Landslide generated tsunamis are lesser-known yet equally destructive than earthquake tsunamis. Indeed, the highest tsunami wave recorded in recent history was generated by a landslide in Lituya Bay (Alaska, July 9, 1958) and produced runup in excess of 400 m. In this paper, we review the state of the art of landslide tsunami analytical modelling. Within the framework of a linearised shallowwat...

The paper is devoted to creating effective and flexible Tsunami Modeling Environment based on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) allowing high-level of operability and reusability of system components. Accordingly, we use the original Virtual MVC-design pattern (VMVC-pattern) approach that is demarcating a Functional (View) and an Implementation (Model) task by inducing an Integrator (Contro...

Study objectives: The study investigated the prevalence and associated factors (media coverage in particular) of stress related responses to the December 2004 tsunami. Design: An anonymous population based cross sectional telephone survey was conducted. Post-traumatic stress symptom was measured by the locally validated Chinese impact of event scale (CIES) and whether the respondent felt distur...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to quantify tsunami mortality and compare approaches to mortality assessment in the emergency context in Aceh, Indonesia, where the impact of the 2004 tsunami was greatest. METHODS Mortality was estimated using geographic information systems-based vulnerability models and demographic methods from surveys of tsunami-displaced populations. RESULTS Tsunami mortality in Aceh...

This paper presents the design of a deployable and foldable tsunami pod for older and disabled people who cannot run to higher grounds during a tsunami attack. In our design, we adopt an ellipsoid structure and use finite element method (FEM) to model the structure. Then, we conduct numerical simulation and confirm the safety based on the von Mises equivalent value and the Head Injury Criterion...