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ATWATER, B. F., MUSUMI-ROKKAKU, S., SATAKE, K., TSUJI, Y., UEDA, K. & YAMAGUCHI, D. K. 2005. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700. Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in North America.

vii + 133 pp. United States Geological Survey and University of Washington Press. Price US $24.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 295 98535 6.

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Investigating historic tsunami is currently engaging geologists and geographers trying to bridge the gap between older geological events and more recent tsunami recorded instrumentally. This research is essential if a proper understanding of the magnitude and frequency of tsunami impact on the global coastline is to be gained. Therefore, all attempts to unravel tsunami activity worldwide throughout the historic period, however locally defined, should be welcomed.

Problems arise, however, in the location, recognition and interpretation of often-scattered references to such events within historic documents, oral history, myths and legends, many of which fall outside of conventionally accepted data sources usually employed by earth scientists. However, this serious . . . [Full Text of this Article]