Professor & author traveling the world documenting #naturalhazards #tsunamis #storms #earthquakes #thetsunamiprof
UNSW AUS/Southampton Uni, UK
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Great news, I now have a new website to go alongside my new book about #ancienttsunamis. Very pleased with how it all looks #thetsunamiprof #newwebsite. Please check it out and let me know what you think profjamesgoff.co.uk
Off to the Japan Geoscience Union annual conference 26-31 May in Chiba. Can't wait to catch up with colleagues. Co-convening a session: "Holocene paleoenvironment, paleoclimate, and paleohazards in the Pacific Islands. Also giving two talks! @JpGU #thetsunamiprof
In history: On 12 April 2022, a landslide caused by heavy rain from Tropical Storm Megi created a tsunami in Abuyog, Leyte, Phillipines. Two people were killed and dozens injured #notjustearthquakes #thetsunamiprof bit.ly/3ymzU0V
In history: Large tsunami struck Ecuador/Colombia coast after 12 December 1979 Mag 7.9-8.2 Tumaco EQ. 259 died in the port of Tumaco alone (photo: Tumaco in 2021). Tsunami observed in Japan, Hawaii, French Polynesia, Mexico #tsunamiresearch #thetsunamiprof
Japanese edition of Tsunami book co- written with Walter Dudley is now out! Very pleased with final product @profjamesgoff #tsunami
In Suva, Fiji - off tsunami hunting with Prof Kazu Goto and team. Nice to be back out in the field! @unitokyo #tsunamihunting
In history: Norway, 13 September 1936 ~1,000,000 m3 landslide off Mount Ramnefjell fell into Loenvatnet Lake generating a 70 m tsunami that killed 74 people. This occurred 31 years after a similar incident and led to near total abandonment of the area #landslidetsunamis
Absolutely brilliant visit to the Atacama Coast again with @GVargasEaston & Diego Salazar. More superb tsunami deposits. Onwards and upwards! Next time maybe Peru as well with new colleagues. Gracias for such a worthwhile trip
Absolutely brilliant visit to the Atacama Coast again with @GVargasEaston & Diego Salazar. More superb tsunami deposits. Onwards and upwards! Next time maybe Peru as well with new colleagues. Gravitas for such a worthwhile trip
Random tsunami photo: Le Bons Bay - One of Aotearoa/NZ's best tsunami deposit sites. Visited for just 2 hours back in 2012 - so much more to see but no time. Never had a chance to revisit BUT surprisingly, no one else has ever done any research there.
As you say David - great to be involved. What a team!
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Just had a great book review from the Hawai'i Land Trust - thanks a bunch, really appreciated hilt.org/blog/a-wave-of-a-go… #ancienttsunamis #thetsunamiprof bit.ly/3ymzU0V
In history: 15 June 1896 - Mag 8.5 Sanriku earthquake caused devastating tsunami which ran up 38.2 m (125 ft), much larger than expected for seismic magnitude = "tsunami earthquake". Over 22,000 killed in Japan. Tsunami wave height of nearly 6 m (20 ft) recorded in Hawaii
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Thirty nine ancient standing stones at the Neolithic site of Carnac, in north-west France, have been destroyed during the construction of a Mr Bricolage DIY store, it has been revealed. bit.ly/3MWhJpv
In my new book #ancienttsunamis I mention Caesar Eugen Wegmann and his famous 1939 cartoon – he didn’t like the myopic views of geologists who just focused on their own “point of view” and ignored the work of others #tsunamiresearch #biggerpicture bit.ly/3ymzU0V
Random quote from my new tsunami book “An entire forest of thousands of trees was uprooted and carried kms inland, bar one” [Tsunami 2011]. #ancienttsunamis bit.ly/3ymzU0V #justone #miraclepinetree #tsunamiresearch #Japan #Rikuzentakata
Random quote from new tsunami book “Armed with a multitude of ineffective insect repellent……” New book #ancienttsunamis – out now! bit.ly/3ymzU0V #inthenameofscience #thetsunamiprof #twiceshy
UK publication date TODAY for my new book #ancienttsunamis!!! It came out in the US in March. Special 30% off offer for everybody #thetsunamiprof bit.ly/3ymzU0V
Random quote from new tsunami book “The barest skeletons of once proud buildings….” [Tsunami 1877]. Great fieldwork memories @geastonvargas @elprofesapbe New book #ancienttsunamis – out now! bit.ly/3ymzU0V #tsunamiresearch #Cobija #Chile #landscape
Waking up to latest tsunami warning in SW Pacific @patton_cascadia providing excellent updates - thanks!
Random quote from new tsunami book “30 m above sea level, there is wave sorted pumice with a huge tree trunk rafted in on top of it.” [Eruption c.1453]. New book #ancienttsunamis – out now! bit.ly/3ymzU0V #tsunamiresearch #Vanuatu #Kuwae #eruption
