Caribbean Tsunami Workshop

加勒比海啸研讨会

• 批准号: 0331704
• 负责人: Aurelio Mercado
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-06-01 至 2004-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0331704&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Caribbean; Tsunami; Workshop

This action is to support a workshop, to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in July/August 2003, to focus on the tsunami threat in the Caribbean region. The coastal population in the Caribbean is growing rapidly, and while everyone is fully aware of the hurricane threat and is, to a great extent, prepared to deal with the hurricane hazard, most people living in the region are not aware of the tsunami hazard.Since 1498, there have been twenty-seven verified tsunamis and an additional nine as "very likely". In the past 136 years there have been three destructive tsunamis in the northeastern Caribbean, the last one occurring in 1946. In the Caribbean Sea region the potential sources for tsunami generation include earthquakes, sub-aerial and submarine landslides, and underwater volcanic explosions. An extra-terrestrial impact is now accepted as having formed the Chicxulub crater in the Yucatan Peninsula, and presumably generated an enormous tsunami. One potential threat for generating tsunamis comes from the most active volcano in the Caribbean, the Kick'em Jenny submarine volcano at the southeastern Caribbean. The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Unit (UWI/SRU), funded by the Caribbean Development Bank, is monitoring its activities. Also, the potential of a catastrophic collapse of the Souffriere volcano in Montserrat could generate a huge tsunami threatening the local area.The main objective of this workshop is to inform the international tsunami community of the tsunami hazard in the Caribbean Sea region and the diversity of tsunami generating sources. At the same time, this workshop will provide a motivation for the tsunami modeling community to address this multiple regional tsunami threat. It is also hoped that the workshop will inform and motivate local governments in the region to become more aware of the tsunami hazard, and involved in planning to mitigate this threat.

这一行动是为了支持将于 2003 年 7 月/8 月在波多黎各圣胡安举行的研讨会，重点关注加勒比地区的海啸威胁。 加勒比地区沿海人口正在迅速增长，虽然每个人都充分意识到飓风威胁，并在很大程度上做好了应对飓风危害的准备，但生活在该地区的大多数人并没有意识到海啸危害。 自 1498 年以来，已发生 27 起经证实的海啸，另有 9 起“极有可能”发生。 在过去的 136 年里，加勒比海东北部发生了 3 次破坏性海啸，最后一次发生在 1946 年。在加勒比海地区，海啸的潜在来源包括地震、空中和海底山体滑坡以及水下火山爆发。 现在人们普遍认为是外星撞击在尤卡坦半岛形成了希克苏鲁伯陨石坑，并可能引发了一场巨大的海啸。 引发海啸的潜在威胁之一来自加勒比地区最活跃的火山，即位于加勒比海东南部的基克姆珍妮海底火山。 由加勒比开发银行资助的西印度群岛大学地震研究中心（UWI/SRU）正在监测其活动。 此外，蒙特塞拉特岛苏弗里耶尔火山一旦发生灾难性崩塌，可能会引发威胁当地的巨大海啸。本次研讨会的主要目的是向国际海啸界通报加勒比海地区的海啸灾害以及海啸发生源的多样性。 同时，本次研讨会将为海啸建模界解决这种多重区域海啸威胁提供动力。 人们还希望研讨会能够告知并激励该地区的地方政府更加了解海啸灾害，并参与减轻这一威胁的规划。