“…The sequence of a tsunami hitting the coast comprises a series of processes: from the tsunami generation and propagation, to coastal-zone hydrodynamics (including surf and swash zone dynamics), coastal inundation and wave-structure interactions with the built environment. Regarding the modeling part -and focusing on coastal inundation -exemplary reference can be made to the work of Borrero et al (2006), who used the MOST model (Titov and González, 1997) for tsunami generation and inundation in western Sumatra; Gayer et al (2010), who used the MIKE21 Flow Model FM to simulate inundation based on roughness maps for Indonesia; Omira et al (2010), who applied a modified version of the COMCOT model (Liu et al, 1998) to selected cases in Casablanca, Morocco; Apotsos et al (2011), who used the Delft3D model to study inundation and sediment transport by the 2004 SE Asia tsunami in measured and idealized morphologies; and Løvholt et al (2012), who used models based on the Boussinesq equations for tsunami propagation and nonlinear shallow-water wave equations for coastal inundation to simulate the 2011 Tohoku tsunami. Extending to coastal planning, vulnerability assessment and tsunami hazard mitigation, one may refer to the work of Bernard (2005), González et al (2009), Post et al (2009, Kumar et al (2010), Sørensen et al (2012) and González-Riancho et al (2014).…”