A timely review of state-of-the-art tsunami research, covering case studies and recent developments from various approaches. Provides a practical guide to improving operational tsunami warning systems and mitigating coastal hazard from tsunamis.

Presents state of the art of tsunami research (papers presented at two international meetings in 2003)

Case Studies.- 1992-2002: Perspective on a Decade of Post-Tsunami Surveys.- The Fiordland Earthquake and Tsunami, New Zealand, 21 August 2003.- Timing and Scale of Tsunamis Caused by the 1994 Rabaul Eruption, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.- Analysis of Tide-Gauge Records of the 1883 Krakatau Tsunami.- Model of Tsunami Generation by Collapse of Volcanic Eruption: The 1741 Oshima-Oshima Tsunami.- Tsunami Resonance Curve from Dominant Periods Observed in Bays of Northeastern Japan.- Delayed Peaks of Tsunami Waveforms at Miyako from Earthquakes East off Hokkaido.- Field Survey of the 2003 Tokachi-Oki Earthquake Tsunami and Simulation at the Ootsu Harbor Located at the Pacific Coast of Hokkaido, Japan.- Variability Among Tsunami Sources in the 17th-21st Centuries Along the Soutehrn Kuril Trench.- Holocene Tsunami Traces on Kunashir Island, Kurile Subduction Zone.- Distribution of Cumulative Tsunami Energy from Alaska-Aleutians to Western Canada.- Recent Developments.- Mapping the Possible Tsunami Hazard as the First Step Towards a Tsunami Resistant Community in Esmeraldas, Ecuador.- Progresses in the Assessment of Tsunami Genesis and Impacts around the Portuguese Coasts.- Quick Tsunami Forecasting Based on Database.- Adjoint Inversion of the Source Parameters of Near-Shore Tsunamigenic Earthquakes.- Experimental Design for Solid Block and Granular Submarine Landslides: A Unified Approach.- Effects of Coastal Forest on Tsunami Hazard Mitigation - A Preliminary Investigation.- Fluid Force on Vegetation Due to Tsunami Flow on a Sand Spit.- Hydro-Acoustic Monitoring on the Kamchatka Shelf: A Possibility of Early Location of Oceanic Earthquake and Local Tsunami Warning.- Electromagnetic Tsunami Monitoring: Theory and Recommendations.