“…In January 2018, I was invited by the editorial office of the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering to act as guest editor of the special issue Tsunami Science and Engineering II to collect articles about tsunamis with the aim to repeat the success of the special issue Tsunami Science and Engineering [2]. I was very keen on this project aimed at representing a wide range of high-level contributions to capture the recent increase in research activity in the field of tsunamis due to a series of recent catastrophes such as the 2018 Java and Sumatra volcanic-eruption-triggered landslide-tsunami, the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake-triggered underwater landslide-tsunami, the 2017 Greenland landslide-tsunami, the 2015 Chile earthquake-tsunami and the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake-tsunami, amongst others [1].…”