Tsunami Lecture

 Thursday 20 September 2001

 

  Chaired by Hamish Campbell

 
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The Lecture was chaired by Dr Hamish Campbell, with the introduction by David Middleton

On the CD-ROM this can be viewed by clicking here or looking for the file intro-20010920.mpg on Disk 1 of the 2 disk set.
 

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Mark Stirling, 
Mark is a hazards scientist who specialises in probabilistic hazard analysis of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and tsunamis. Mark is at the international forefront of this relatively new analytical technique that is being applied in fields such as engineering, insurance, and emergency management.

On the CD-ROM this can be viewed by clicking here or looking for the file mark.mpg on Disk 1 of the 2 disk set.
 

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Robert Langridge
Robert is an earthquake geologist whose specialty is working out why, when, how big and how often earthquakes occur on faultlines. Before coming to GNS he worked for the US Geological Survey and has made reconnaissance trips to Turkey to study the Izmit earthquake.

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Gaye Downes
Gaye's area of expertise is seismic hazard analysis and tsunami hazard analysis. She is an expert on large historical earthquakes in New Zealand.

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Debbie Cunningham
Debbie is an Emergency Management Officer with the Wellington Regional Council. Debbie's role includes educating the public about emergency preparedness and working with the emergency response agencies to ensure co-ordinated emergency responses.

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Questions and Answers

On the CD-ROM this can be viewed by clicking here or looking for the file QnA-20010920.mpg on Disk 2 of the 2 disk set.
 

Recorded at the Soundings Theatre, Level 2 of Te Papa, 20 September 2001. This movie is viewable in Windows Media PlayerApple Quicktime or Real Player.

At the lecture a number of other video files were used during th epresentation. These files are included below so that you may watch them in greater clarity.
 
 
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While the Soundings Theatre was filling, the speakers ran a computer animation showing global earthquakes over the past 35  years. This is a clip of that animation. 

The animation has been developed by Dr Alan L Jones of the State University of
New York at Binghamton 

   http://www.geol.binghamton.edu/faculty/jones/

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Animation from the talk by Gaye Downes showing the propagation of the Tsunami from Peru to New Zealand.

Sourced on the Internet from

 http://www.ntf.flinders.edu.au/TEXT/PRJS/TSUNAMI/tsunami.html

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A movie clip from the talk by Gaye Downes showing a river bore in China. Sourced on the Internet from

http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/video/china.mov

A number of Internet references were given by the speakers. These are included below for completeness.

Different versions and formats of this movie may be available on the internet web site.


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