![]() ![]() PDF documents opened from yourīrowser may not display or print as intended. The documents to your computer and open them with Adobe Reader. For best results viewing and printing PDF documents, it is recommended that you download Part or all of this report is presented in Portable Document Format The orphan tsunami of 1700-Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in North Americaįirst Edition: Originally posted 2005 Second Edition: 2015 ISSN: 1044-9612 (print) Table of Contents Geological Survey Professional Paper 1707, 135 p. Suggested CitationĪtwater, B.F., Musumi-Rokkaku, S., Satake, K., Tsuji, Y., Ueda, K., and Yamaguchi, D.K., 2015, The orphan tsunami of 1700-Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in North America, 2nd ed.: Seattle, University of Washington Press, U.S. The Japanese tsunami of March 2011 called attention to those hazards as a mirror image of the transpacific waves of January 1700. The discoveries underpin many of today’s precautions against earthquakes and tsunamis in the Cascadia region of northwestern North America. ![]() The Orphan Tsunami of 1700, now in its second edition, tells this scientific detective story through its North American and Japanese clues. This orphan tsunami would not be linked to its parent earthquake until the middle 1990s, through an extraordinary series of discoveries in both North America and Japan. They had no way knowing that the tsunami had been spawned during an earthquake along the coast of northwestern North America. Some noted that no parent earthquake had been felt they were wondering what had set off the waves. ![]() Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Seattle WA puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Geological Survey at Department of Earth and Space Sciences ![]()
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