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Takahiro Yoshikawa and Toshihiro Noda
Immense liquefaction damage was observed in the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake. It was reported that, in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, the main shock oozed muddy water from the sandy ground and the aftershock which occurred 29 min after the m...
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Hassien Alnashiri, Liju Thomas, Maqbool Thaikkottathil, Siby Philip, Ranjeet Kutty, Sureshkumar Sivanpillai and Ali Mohammed Abo Rasain
Chitons (Polyplacophora) are marine molluscs that mostly inhabit rocky intertidal shores. Their biological and phylogenetic studies are comparatively sparse in the western Indo-Pacific regions. In addition, chitons belonging to the subfamily Acanthopleur...
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Seung-Won Suh and Myeong-Hee Lee
The vulnerability to coastal disasters resulting from storm surges and wave overtopping (WOT) during typhoon intrusions is significantly escalating due to rising sea levels. In particular, coastal seawalls constructed along the coast through engineered a...
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José P. Vega-Camarena, Luis Brito-Castillo, Luis F. Pineda-Martínez and Luis M. Farfán
In the warm season, El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) causes periods with more rain in Northern Mexico during its positive phase, while less rainfall is recorded in the southern regions during the negative phase. This research study evaluates the varia...
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Jose Eduardo Fuentes, Robin Alexis Olaya and Cesar Edwin Garcia
Buenaventura on the Colombian Pacific coast has experienced a wide range of threats, mainly due to the effects of coastal erosion and flooding. Globally, millions of people will experience increased vulnerability in the coming decades due to climate chan...
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Naomasa Oshiro, Takumi Tomikawa, Kyoko Kuniyoshi, Akira Ishikawa, Hajime Toyofuku, Takashi Kojima and Hiroshi Asakura
Ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) is one of the most frequently reported seafood poisoning diseases. It is endemic to the tropical region and occurs most commonly in the regions around the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Caribbean Sea. The principal toxins...
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Leonardo Bernard, Michael Petterson, Clive Schofield and Stuart Kaye
The Pacific Island States and Territories are traditionally described as ?small island? nations. However, they are also ?large ocean? nations with jurisdiction over substantial maritime spaces stretching to at least 200 nautical miles. The article addres...
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Björn R. Röbke, Tim Leijnse, Gundula Winter, Maarten van Ormondt, Joana van Nieuwkoop and Reimer de Graaff
This study demonstrates the skills of D-FLOW Flexible Mesh (FM) and SFINCS (Super-Fast INundation of CoastS) in combination with the Delft Dashboard Tsunami Toolbox to numerically simulate tsunami offshore propagation and inundation based on the example ...
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Ginni Callahan, Markes E. Johnson, Rigoberto Guardado-France and Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez
This project examines the role of hurricane-strength events likely to have exceeded 119 km/h in wind speed that entered the Gulf of California from the open Pacific Ocean during Late Pleistocene and Holocene times to impact the granodiorite shoreline on ...
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Yoshimichi Yamamoto, Yuji Kozono, Erick Mas, Fumiya Murase, Yoichi Nishioka, Takako Okinaga and Masahide Takeda
The aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004 triggered by the off Sumatra earthquake (magnitude ?M? = 9.1), and the Great East Japan earthquake of 11 March 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku (M = 9.0), evidence the secondary damage fro...
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