“…Tsunami waves, in spite of its non-periodic wave form, appear to be much longer with an effective duration of 15 minutes to 1 hour; and can be induced by earthquakes or landslides in the ocean [8]. There are other types of coastal wave motion, e.g., boat wakes induced by ship motions [9,10], acoustic-gravity waves [11], storm surges due to hurricanes, capillary waves associated with surface tension, continental coastal shelfwaves produced by earth Coriolis force, (for details see [12]). In this review, we confine ourselves to surface waves in the near shore.…”