• International Tsunami Information Centre - The information services of the ITSU programme.


• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Tsunami Data - NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
• GIS and data layers
• Tsunamis
• Tsunamis - U.S. Dept. of Commerce
• West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center -- NOAA, NWS


• Tsunami Laboratory -- Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Siberian Division Russian Academy of Sciences
• Historical Tsunami Database for the Pacific, 47 B.C. to present
• Historical Tsunami Database for the Atlantic, 60 B.C. to present
• Historical Tsunami Database for the Mediterranean, 1628 B.C.-1999 A.D.


• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
• Coastal Storms and Tsunamis
• Earthquake Hazards Program - Tsunami resources
• Tsunami and Earthquake Research


• USC Tsunami Research Center


• What About Tsunamis? -- UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory

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Tsunami Information Sources by Robert L. Wiegel, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley.

Part 1 [115p. PDF file, 872KB] - Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory Technical Report UCB/HEL 2005-1, 14 December 2005
Part 2 [39p. PDF file, 261KB] - Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory Technical Report UCB/HEL 2006-1, 18 April 2006.
Part 3 [24p. PDF file, 187KB] - Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory Technical Report UCB/HEL 2006-3, 18 December 2006
Part 4 (With a section on impulsively generated waves by a rapid mass movement, either submerged, or into a body of water) [69p. PDF file, 480KB] - Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory Technical Report UCB/HEL 2008-1, 14 March 2008

Hard copies of these reports are available for viewing at WRCA, call no. 25.54 P5.

Prof. Wiegel's introduction from Part 1:
"I have expanded substantially my list of information sources on: tsunami generation (sources, impulsive mechanisms), propagation, effects of nearshore bathymetry, and wave run-up on shore - including physical (hydraulic) modeling and numerical modeling. This expanded list includes the subjects of field investigations of tsunamis soon after an event; damage effects in harbors on boats, ships, and facilities; tsunami wave-induced forces; damage by tsunami waves to structures on shore; scour/erosion; hazard mitigation; land use planning; zoning; siting, design, construction and maintenance of structures and infrastructure; public awareness and education; distant and local sources; tsunami warning and evacuation programs; tsunami probability and risk criteria. A few references are on "sedimentary signatures" useful in the study of historic and prehistoric tsunamis (paleo-tsunamis). In addition to references specifically on tsunamis, there are references on long water wave and solitary wave theory; wave refraction, diffraction, and reflection; shelf and basin free and forced oscillations (bay and harbor response; seiches); edge waves; Mach-reflection of long water waves ("stem waves"); wave run-up on shore; energy dissipation. All are important in understanding tsunamis, and in hazard mitigation. References are given on subaerial and submarine landslide (and rockfall) generated waves in reservoirs, fjords, bays, and ocean; volcano explosive eruptions/collapse; underwater and surface explosions; asteroid impact.