The Next Tsunami: Living on a Restless Coast

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317 Index Adams, John, 119, 222–24 Aleutian Megathrust fault, 39 Alsea Bay, 93–94 Ando, Masataka, 100–102 anti-war activism, early 1970s: in Japan, 172; in the United States, 94, 110 Ataspaca Prospect (Peru), 134–36 Atwater, Brian: background, 98; collaboration with David Yamaguchi, 86–90, 121–29; marsh stratigraphy research, 95– 104; Penrose Seaside conference, 233–34; standard penetrometer studies, Columbia River, 157 Atwater, Tanya, 68–69, 72–76, 92, 110, 183 Aya, Alfred, 138–47, 182 Baker, Frederick Storrs, 19, 42–44, 89 Balazs, Emery, 100–102 Baptista, Antonio, 159–62, 164– 65, 184–85 bark beetle, 133 barnacle, 16–17, 37–38 Big Lagoon, 106, 151–52, 192 Blackett, P.M.S., 53–54, 60 Bommelyn, Loren, 206–8 Buckley, Thomas, 205 building code, Oregon, 235, 244 Bullard, Edward, 55, 58 California Division of Mines and Geology, 107 California Indian Conference (1994), 207 Cannon Beach Elementary School, 244; closure, 305; effort to relocate, 247–50, 252, 295; tsunami drills, 245–47, 251; vulnerability to earthquake and tsunami, 244–47. Cannon Beach, Oregon: COwS, 142–43; impact of 1964 tsunami, 140, 179, 244–45; paleotsunami research in, 247–49, 251–52; tsunami evacuation mapping, 241; tsunami preparedness, 139–47; vulnerability to tsunami, 2 Carver, Deborah, 191–208 Carver, Gary: background, 108–10; research on Cascadia fault traces, 105–8, 110–112; Monmouth conference, 118–20; collaborations with Deborah Carver, 191–96, 210–11 Cascades Volcano Observatory, 124, 189 Cascadia Margin Meeting, Salishan (1979), 92–93, 184 Cascadia Megathrust earthquake (1700); dendrochronology research on, 122–33, 186v90; radiocarbon dating of, 167– 68, 210–11; use of Japanese historical records to identify, 166–69, 171–77 Cascadia Subduction Zone, 1, 75, 92, 124, 184; early speculation about seismicity of, 91–95, 98–101, 111, 136; magnitude and frequency interval estimates of past earthquakes, 210, 284–86; magnitude and timing projections for future earthquake, 182–83, 264, 318 The Next Tsunami 266v67, 286; Native people’s stories about, 191–211, 214v15; nuclear power plants in, 99; relative tsunami risk to coastal communities, 2, 305v6; risks specific to southern end of, 266v68, 286; study of fault traces in, 105–8, 111–12, 119; study of liquefaction traces in, 156–57; study of marsh stratigraphy in, 89–91, 93–95, 102–4, 120; study of ocean stratigraphy related to, 91–93, 221–26, 249, 284–86; tsunami evacuation signs, 239–40. See also Cascadia Megathrust Earthquake (1700) Cedar. See western redcedar Chenega, Alaska, 30, 33–34 Chile earthquake (2010), 254–56, 258–60, 265, 267 Clarke, Sam, 111–12 Clatsop Nehalem tribe, 209–10, 213–14; imagined impact of 1700 Cascadia earthquake on, 216–20 Clifton, Ed, 94, 103 Cloos, Hans, 48 Columbia River, 103, 156–57, 225 Columbia University, 199; Lamont Geological Observatory, 40, 72 Constitución, Chile, 258–59 continental drift theory. See plate tectonics theory continuous peat core, 90, 102, 104, 225 Coquille tribe, 209 Crescent City (California), 2, 7, 27, 35 Crown Camp, 13–14, 16–17, 65, 242 Darienzo, Mark, 89–91, 93–95 Deep Sea Drilling Project 76, 79 dendrochronology, 122–23, 128, 132. See also under Cascadia Megathrust earthquake (1700), Mount St. Helens Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI), Oregon, 182, 244; SB 179 tsunami inundation line, 181– 85, 238, 244, 247–48, 251; tsunami evacuation mapping, 238–41, 248–49, 251, 255, 257–58, 266, 269, 305–6. See also Baptista, Antonio; Cannon Beach: paleotsunami studies; Gold Beach (Oregon) tsunami preparedness meeting (2011); Priest, George; Witter, Rob Dickinson, William, 69 disaster tourists, 26, 259 Dorador, Leonardo, 254–56 Dougherty, Doug, 242–53, 288, 294–95, 305–6 Duwamish tribe, 209 earthquakes: cause, early theories about, 36; magnitude, v, 9; generation of tsunami by, 3, 36; hazards associated with, 234. See also fault types; liquefaction; seismic wave types; subduction, earthquake; subsidence, earthquake earthquakes and tsunamis, historical: Jogan Sanriku (869), 274, 277; Keicho Sanriku (1611), 274; Santa Barbara (1812), 200; Peru (1868), 140; Meiji Sanriku (1896), 274, 277; index 319 Yakutat Bay (1899), 200; Great San Francisco (1906), 200; Sanriku (1933), 274; Aleutian Islands (1946), 140; Sylmar (1971), 231; Mexico City (1985), 98; Nihonkai-Chubu (1983), 169–70; Nicaragua (1992), 184; Hokkaido NanseiOki (1993), 184; Scotts Mills (1993), 144–45; Kuril Islands (1994), 155–56, 158–60; Kobe (1995), 273–74; Sea of Okhotsk (2013), 305; Central Mexico (June 2013); Masachapa Nicaragua earthquake (June 2013), 305. See also Cascadia Megathrust earthquake (1700...