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`Physics of Tsunamis', second edition, provides a comprehensive analytical treatment of the hydrodynamics associated with the tsunami generation process. ... `Physics of Tsunamis' fills an important niche in reference books on tsunamis. ... This book should especially appeal to those interested in an analytical treatment of near-source tsunami hydrodynamics. (Eric L. Geist, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 174, 2017)

'Physics of Tsunamis', second edition, provides a comprehensive analytical treatment of the hydrodynamics associated with the tsunami generation process. ... 'Physics of Tsunamis' fills an important niche in reference books on tsunamis. ... This book should especially appeal to those interested in an analytical treatment of near-source tsunami hydrodynamics. (Eric L. Geist, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 174, 2017)

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Professor Boris W. Levin is a corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Director of the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Far East Branch of RAS, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia. He is a member of IUGG Tsunami Commission, American Geophysical Union, Seismological Society of America and National Geographic Society. He has more than 200 scientific publications in the fields of geophysics, tsunamis, seaquakes, seismology. Mikhail A. Nosov is a Professor of Physics of Sea and Inland Waters at the Faculty of Physics of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. He is an active participant to the EGS and EGU meetings. As co-convener and UNESCO contractor, he organized the International Workshop on ""Local Tsunami Warning and Mitigation"" (2002). In 2005 he was awarded Plinius Medal of European Geosciences Union. He has more than 70 scientific publications in the fields of marine physics, tsunamis, seaquakes.

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