university of washington libraries : fisheries-oceanography library : tsunamis

Compiled by the librarian and staff at the Fisheries-Oceanography Library, University of Washington, this list is a starting point for research on tsunamis.

Databases

UW Libraries Catalog
The Libraries Catalog includes the book and journal holdings of all of the University of Washington Libraries collections. Search by Library of Congress Subject Heading, Tsunamis, or by keyword, tsunami*. The * serves as a truncation symbol.

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) UW Restricted
ASFA indexes approximately 4500 journals worldwide covering all aspects of marine, freshwater and brackish water environments. Also, includes technical reports and conference papers.

Digital Bibliography of the Geology and Mineral Resources of Washington
Includes the Tsunami Library Catalog of the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program.

GEOBASE UW Restricted
An index to the international literature of geography, ecology, earth science and marine science. Current coverage includes articles from 3000 journals as well as books, maps, etc.

GeoRef UW Restricted
The most comprehensive datbase covering earth science literature, including references to North American geology since 1785, and other areas of the world since 1933.

NTIS UW Restricted
Indexes and abstracts U.S. Government-sponsored research,development, and engineering reports and analyses distributed by the National Technical Information Service. Includes NOAA technical reports.

ScienceDirect UW Restricted
ScienceDirect is the search interface for the journals published by Elsevier. The UW Libraries subscribes to many of the journals in electronic format. Here are some examples of articles that can be found on a search of tsunamis.

Return to top

Selected Internet Resources: (Regional); Earthquake Causes of Tsunamis
http://www.uaf.edu/seagrant/earthquake/tsunami.html; Geologic Hazards on the Oregon Coast, Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
http://www.oregongeology.com/sub/earthquakes/coastal/japanrecords.htm; Local Tsunamis in the Pacific Northwest http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/cascadia.html; NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, National Center for Tsunami Research
http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/index.html; Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, NOAA
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/pr/ptwc/; Seattle P-I Article "New findings super-size our tsunami threat," Feb. 7, 2005
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/211012_tsunamiscience07.html; "Tsunami Earthquake Location Included in Forecast". News Article from University of California, Davis
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=7237; Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/warning/warning.html; University of Southern California Tsunami Research Group
http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/; University of Washington Tsunamis!
http://www.ess.washington.edu/tsunami/; Washington Military Department, Emergency Management Division: EMD's Tsunami Program
http://emd.wa.gov/hazards/haz_tsunami.shtml; West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/; (National); US Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program, Information on December 26, 2004 Asia Earthquake
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/; Earthquake Hazards Program, US Geological Survey
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
and http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/pacnw/; National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami-hazard/index.htm; PBS--Waves of Destruction: Tsunamis http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/tsunami/index.html; Seismological Society of America
http://www.seismosoc.org/; Tsunamis and Earthquakes Research, US Geological Survey
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/; Tsunami Database, National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/tsu.shtml; TsunamiReady, National Weather Service
http://www.tsunamiready.noaa.gov/; (International); Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations Tsunami Reconstruction
http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/01724/relief_us.html; International Coordination Group for the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific
http://ioc.unesco.org/itsu/; International Tsunami Information Center, UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
http://www.prh.noaa.gov/itic/

ITIC Library
http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/NOAA_NWS_ITIC.html

ReefBase: information on tsunami's effect on coral reefs
http://www.reefbase.org/; ReefBase: information on tsunami's effect on coral reefs
http://www.reefbase.org/

Return to top

Selected Serials and Books

(Serials)

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
http://www.natural-hazards-and-earth-system-sciences.net/index.html

Science of Tsunami Hazards journal
(pdfs of 1982-2003 volumes) http://epubs.lanl.gov/tsunami/
(Current Issues) http://www.sthjournal.org/

TsuInfo Alert, Newsletter of the Washington State Department of Natural Resources
http://www.dnr.wa.gov/ResearchScience/Topics/GeologyPublicationsLibrary/Pages/tsuinfo.aspx

Tsunami Newsletter, International Tsunami Information Center
http://ioc3.unesco.org/itic/categories.php?category_no=81

(Books)

Examples of tsunami books in the UW Libraries.

Post-Tsunami Survey Field Guide, IOC Manuals and Guides 37
http://ioc.unesco.org/itsu/files/MG037.pdf

Surviving a Tsunami--Lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan; US Geological Survey Circular 1187 (1999)
http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/circular/c1187/

Tsunami: The Great Waves (brochure from International Tsunami Information Center)
http://www.weather.gov/om/brochures/tsunami.htm

Tsunami Early Warning Signs Go Up on Pacific Beaches
http://www.rense.com/earthchanges/tsunam.htm

Tsunami Publications at the National Geophysical Data Center
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/tsu.shtml

Return to top

Fisheries-Oceanography Library

Databases

Selected Internet Resources

Selected Serials and Books