Field Survey of the 1994 Mindoro Island, Philippines Tsunami

Imamura, Fumihiko; Synolakis, Costas E.; Gica, Edison; Titov, Vasily V.; Listanco, Eddie L.; Lee, Ho Jun

doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-7279-9_27

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“…It does not however, require a large tsunami to move large objects around. The 1994 Mindoro Philippines tsunami transported a 4000 ton barge 1.5 km inland, but the maximum runup did not exceed 4.5 m (Imamura et al, 1995). The 2004 IOT carried many ships and smaller vessels inland, but why did we not see the stranding of large cetaceans?…”

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Brief Communication: Cetaceans and tsunamis – whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Goff

Chagué‐Goff

2009

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. The composition of tsunami deposits is variable and governed by source material. Many unusual items have been recorded from tsunami deposits. For example, during the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, a dolphin was reported to have been transported 1400 m inland, a shark was found in a hotel swimming pool, and sea turtles were stranded kilometers inland. Reports and papers from early settlers and explorers have often highlighted similar unusual finds. We briefly discuss an example from New Zealand where intact cetacean skeletons were found elevated on land adjacent to the coast. The validity of this find as evidence for tsunami emplacement is considered. It is also noted that such old reports should be treated with respect and re-evaluated in the light of more recent findings. Brief communicationSedimentological, biological and geochemical evidence from historic tsunamis provides valuable information for researchers attempting to identify records of prehistoric events.

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confidence: 96%

Brief Communication: Cetaceans and tsunamis – whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Goff

Chagué‐Goff

2009

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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“…Unfortunately, only very few tsunami signatures that might facilitate discrimination by providing typical site-specific features (e.g. Kortekaas and Dawson, 2007) have been described for the Philippines (Imamura et al, 1995), making it hard to evaluate which of the sedimentary characteristics documented for Typhoon Haiyan in this study are unique for the impact of local typhoons.…”

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Typhoon Haiyan's sedimentary record in coastal environments of the Philippines and its palaeotempestological implications

Brill¹,

May²,

Engel³

et al. 2016

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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On 8 November 2013, category 5 Supertyphoon Haiyan made landfall on the Philippines. During a post-typhoon survey in February 2014, Haiyan-related sand deposition and morphological changes were documented at four severely affected sites with different exposure to the typhoon track and different geological and geomorphological settings. Onshore sand sheets reaching 100-250m inland are restricted to coastal areas with significant inundation due to amplification of surge levels in embayments or due to accompanying long-wave phenomena at the most exposed coastlines of Leyte and Samar. However, localized washover fans with a storm-typical laminated stratigraphy occurred even along coasts with limited inundation due to waves overtopping or breaching coastal barriers. On a recent reef platform off Negros in the Visayan Sea, storm waves entrained coral rubble from the reef slope and formed an intertidal coral ridge several hundreds of metres long when breaking at the reef edge. As these sediments and landforms were generated by one of the strongest storms ever recorded, they not only provide a recent reference for typhoon signatures that can be used for palaeotempestological and palaeotsunami studies in the region but might also increase the general spectrum of possible cyclone deposits. Although a rather atypical example for storm deposition due to the influence of infragravity waves, it nevertheless provides a valuable reference for an extreme case that should be considered when discriminating between storm and tsunami deposits in general. Even for sites with low topography and high inundation levels dur-ing Supertyphoon Haiyan, the landward extent of the documented sand sheets seems significantly smaller than typical sand sheets of large tsunamis. This criterion may potentially be used to distinguish both types of events

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“…The database covers a larger geographical area than the hazard study area displayed in Figure 1, with the source information depicted in Figure 4. This catalog is mainly based on databases of the National Geophysical Data Center (subsequently referred to as NGDC) and the Tsunami Laboratory Novosibirsk (subsequently referred to as TLN), supplemented with papers describing certain events [ Imamura et al , 1995; Natawidjaja et al , 2006; Ortiz and Bilham , 2003; Satake and Atwater , 2007]. Compared with an earlier review by Hamzah et al [2000], the present database is updated, covers a larger geographical area, and includes more events.…”

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Historical tsunamis and present tsunami hazard in eastern Indonesia and the southern Philippines

Løvholt¹,

Kühn²,

Bungum³

et al. 2012

J. Geophys. Res.

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[1] Eastern Indonesia and the southern Philippines comprise a huge and seismically highly active region that has received less than the deserved attention in tsunami research compared with the surrounding areas exposed to the major subduction zones. In an effort to redress the balance the tsunami hazard in this region is studied by establishing a tsunami event database which, in combination with seismological and tectonic information from the region, has allowed us to define and justify a number of 'credible worst-case' tsunami scenarios. These scenarios have been used in numerical simulations of tsunami generation and propagation to study maximum water level along potentially affected shorelines. The scenarios have in turn been combined to provide regional tsunami hazard maps. In many cases the simulations indicate that the maximum water level may exceed 10 m locally and even reach above 20 m in the vicinity of the source, which is of the same order as what is forecasted along the Sumatra and Java trenches for comparable return periods. For sections of coastlines close to a source, a tsunami may strike only a few minutes after it is generated, providing little time for warning. Moreover, several of the affected areas are highly populated and are therefore also high risk areas. The combination of high maximum water levels, short warning times, dense populations, and relatively short return periods suggests strongly that the tsunami hazard and risk in these regions are alarmingly high.

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Field Survey of the 1994 Mindoro Island, Philippines Tsunami

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Brief Communication: Cetaceans and tsunamis – whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Brief Communication: Cetaceans and tsunamis – whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Typhoon Haiyan's sedimentary record in coastal environments of the Philippines and its palaeotempestological implications

Historical tsunamis and present tsunami hazard in eastern Indonesia and the southern Philippines

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