Overviews

This is a list of additional tsunami readings.  The following are links to Websites or PDF files.

Big Waves: Tracking Deadly Tsunamis
By ITIC Director Laura Kong.  Scientists hope to save more lives by learning better ways to predict the approach of killer waves.  This special Oceanography Report was published in 2004 Science Year by World Book.

NOAA: Backgrounder: Tsunamis
Gives a brief general description of tsunamis and role that NOAA agencies have in tsunami mitigation.


Geoscience Australia - Tsunamis
(https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/community-safety/tsunami)
Gives a brief general description of tsunamis and the risk they pose to Australian coastal areas.

Tsunami: The Great Waves
An IOC publication available in English, Spanish and French.

TSUNAMI!
(http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/pubs/outstand/gonz2088/gonz2088.shtml)
By Frank González.  An article published in Scientific American, May 1999.  Explores how the lessons learned about tsunamis in the past decade will help save lives.

Surviving a tsunami--Lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan
(http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/c1187/) or
(http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/c1187/c1187.pdf)
US Geological Survey Circular 1187, written by Brian Atwater and others.

Or in Spanish-----

Como Sobrevivir a un Maremoto: 11 Lecciones del Tsunami occurrido en al sur de Chile el 22 de mayo de 1960

Waves of Destruction: Tsunamis
(http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/tsunami/index.html)
Part of the PBS online series The Savage Earth which deals with natural disasters.  This episode by Daniel Pendick describes tsunamis for a general audience.

Tsunamis
(http://www.dnr.wa.gov/programs-and-services/geology/geologic-hazards/tsunamis)
Washington State's Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geology and Earth Resources.