Tsunami Science Four Years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami - Modelling and Hazard Assessment


1. Introduction

Four years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, the most lethal tsunami disaster in

human history, tsunami science continued to move forward rapidly. The research and

disaster management community that supports tsunami mitigation has expanded greatly.

Observation platforms, especially in the Indian Ocean, have far surpassed their pre-2004

capacity for detecting and measuring tsunamis and the earthquakes that most frequently

cause them. A remarkable crosssection of this research was presented in the session

Tsunami Generation and Hazard, at the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics

(IUGG) XXIV General Assembly in Perugia, Italy, held in July of 2007. Over one

hundred presentations were made at this session, spanning topics ranging from

paleotsunami research, to nonlinear shallow-water theory, to tsunami hazard and risk






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