Brian Atwater

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Brian Atwater is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of Delaware, Stanford University, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, University of Washington, University of Pennsylvania

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#1043

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#1589

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#333

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Physical Geography

#157

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#181

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#28

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Brian Atwater's Degrees

PhD Geology University of Washington
Masters Geology University of Washington
Bachelors Geology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Brian Franklin Atwater is a geologist who works for the United States Geological Survey and is also a research professor at the University of Washington. Career Atwater has spent much of his career studying the likelihood of large earthquakes and tsunamis in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. In 2005, he published a book with others, "The Orphan Tsunami of 1700," that summarizes the evidence for an 8.7–9.2 megathrust earthquake in the Pacific Northwest on 26 January 1700, known as the 1700 Cascadia earthquake. The earthquake produced a tsunami so large that contemporary reports in Japan noted it, allowing Atwater's team to assign a precise date and approximate magnitude to the earthquake. Its occurrence and size are confirmed by evidence of a dramatic drop in the elevation of Northwest coastal land, recorded by buried marsh and forest soils that underlie tidal sediment, the deposition of a layer of tsunami sand on the subsided landscape, the death or injury of affected trees , and descriptions of the earthquake and tsunami in regional Amerindian legends.

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Brian Atwater's Published Works

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Evidence for Great Holocene Earthquakes Along the Outer Coast of Washington State (1987) (746)
Predecessors of the giant 1960 Chile earthquake (2005) (464)
Unusually large earthquakes inferred from tsunami deposits along the Kuril trench (2003) (403)
Recurrence Intervals for Great Earthquakes of the Past 3,500 Years at Northeastern Willapa Bay, Washington (1997) (331)
Medieval forewarning of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Thailand (2008) (305)
Fault slip and seismic moment of the 1700 Cascadia earthquake inferred from Japanese tsunami descriptions (2003) (294)
Summary of Coastal Geologic Evidence for past Great Earthquakes at the Cascadia Subduction Zone (1995) (287)
The Quaternary Period in the United States (2006) (259)
A Tsunami About 1000 Years Ago in Puget Sound, Washington (1992) (254)
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America (2005) (250)
Long-Term Perspectives on Giant Earthquakes and Tsunamis at Subduction (2007) (229)
Geologic evidence for earthquakes during the past 2000 years along the Copalis River, southern coastal Washington (1992) (216)
History, landforms, and vegetation of the estuary's tidal marshes (1979) (193)
Radiocarbon evidence for extensive plate-boundary rupture about 300 years ago at the Cascadia subduction zone (1995) (167)
Transient Uplift After a 17th-Century Earthquake Along the Kuril Subduction Zone (2004) (130)
Tree-ring dating the 1700 Cascadia earthquake (1997) (126)
Sudden, probably coseismic submergence of Holocene trees and grass in coastal Washington State (1991) (126)
Late Quaternary depositional history, Holocene sea-level changes, and vertical crustal movement, southern San Francisco Bay, California (1977) (116)
Earthquake recurrence inferred from paleoseismology (2003) (109)
Radiocarbon test of earthquake magnitude at the Cascadia subduction zone (1991) (101)
Pleistocene glacial-lake deposits of the Sanpoil River valley, northeastern Washington (1986) (96)
Preliminary estimates of recurrence intervals for great earthquakes of the past 3500 years at northeastern Willapa Bay, Washington (1996) (89)
A fan dam for Tulare Lake, California, and implications for the Wisconsin glacial history of the Sierra Nevada (1986) (74)
Periodic floods from glacial Lake Missoula into the Sanpoil arm of glacial Lake Columbia, northeastern Washington (1984) (70)
Geomorphic and stratigraphic evidence for an unusual tsunami or storm a few centuries ago at Anegada, British Virgin Islands (2012) (63)
Rethinking turbidite paleoseismology along the Cascadia subduction zone (2014) (60)
Surviving a tsunami: lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan (1999) (57)
Net Late Holocene emergence despite earthquake-induced submergence, south-central Chile (1991) (57)
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 (2005) (56)
Seventeenth-century uplift in eastern Hokkaido, Japan (2004) (55)
Deep-Sea Turbidites as Guides to Holocene Earthquake History at the Cascadia Subduction Zone—Alternative Views for a Seismic-Hazard Workshop (2012) (55)
Status of Glacial Lake Columbia during the Last Floods from Glacial Lake Missoula (1987) (52)
Rapid resetting of an estuarine recorder of the 1964 Alaska earthquake (2001) (46)
Evidence for Liquefaction Identified in Peeled Slices of Holocene Deposits along the Lower Columbia River, Washington (2004) (43)
The 1960 tsunami on beach-ridge plains near Maullín, Chile: Landward descent, renewed breaches, aggraded fans, multiple predecessors (2013) (42)
Distribution of seed plants with respect to tide levels and water salinity in the natural tidal marshes of the northern San Francisco Bay Estuary, California (1976) (39)
Tidal-Wetland Deposits of the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta, California (1980) (39)
Geologic maps of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California (1982) (30)
Extreme waves in the British Virgin Islands during the last centuries before 1500 CE (2017) (26)
Earthquake-induced burial of archaeological sites along the southern Washington coast about A.D. 1700 (1996) (24)
Stratigraphy of Late Quaternary Estuarine Deposits and Amino Acid Stereochemistry of Oyster Shells Beneath San Francisco Bay, California (1981) (21)
Geology of Holocene liquefaction features along the lower Columbia River at Marsh, Brush, Price, Hunting, and Wallace Islands, Oregon and Washington (1994) (21)
Paleomagnetic correlation of late Holocene earthquakes among estuaries in Washington and Oregon (2004) (19)
Renewal of Tidal Forests in Washington State after a Subduction Earthquake in A.D. 1700 (2001) (18)
Grouted sediment slices show signs of earthquake shaking (2001) (16)
The Channeled Scabland: Back to Bretz?: Comment and ReplyCOMMENT (2000) (16)
Effects of 2010 Hurricane Earl amidst geologic evidence for greater overwash at Anegada, British Virgin Islands (2014) (15)
Alluvial plains and earthquake recurrence at the Coalinga anticline (1990) (14)
Assessing inundation hazards to nuclear powerplant sites using geologically extended histories of riverine floods, tsunamis, and storm surges (2014) (12)
Holocene lahars and their by-products along the historical path of the White River between Mount Rainier and Seattle (2003) (12)
Transient uplift after a 17th-century earthquake along the Kuril trench (2004) (9)
Preliminary maps showing late Cenozoic deposits of the Bruceville, Elk Grove, Florin, and Galt 7.5-minute quadrangles, Sacramento and San Joaquin counties, California (1980) (8)
Elders Recall an Earlier Tsunami on Indian Ocean Shores (2014) (8)
Comment and Reply on "Coastline uplift in Oregon and Washington and the nature of Cascadia subduction-zone tectonics" (1988) (8)
Glacial Lake Missoula and the Channeled Scabland Missoula, Montana to Portland, Oregon, July 20–26, 1989 (1989) (7)
Distribution of vascular-plant species in six remnants of intertidal wetland of the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta, California (1980) (6)
Hunting for Ancient Tsunamis in the Tropics (2007) (6)
Preliminary geologic map of the Colville Indian Reservation, Ferry and Okanogan Counties, Washington (1984) (5)
Map showing thickness of young bay mud, southern San Francisco Bay, California (1978) (4)
Facilitating adaptive management in California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (2017) (4)
Modeling of tsunamis and hurricanes as causes of the catastrophic overwash of Anegada, British Virgin Islands, between 1650 and 1800 (2010) (4)
The Spokane Valley and northern Columbia Plateau (2013) (4)
Tsunami geology and its role in hazard mitigation (2005) (3)
Preliminary geologic map of the Colville Indian Reservation, Ferry and Okanogan Counties, Washington Compiled by (1984) (3)
Guidebook for 1983 Friends of the Pleistocene field trip to the Sanpoil River valley, northeastern Washington (1983) (3)
Onshore-Offshore Correlation of Geologic Evidence for Great Cascadia Earthquakes--Permissive Agreement Between Washington Estuaries and Cascadia Deep-Sea Channel (2004) (3)
Near-field tsunami inferred from numerical modeling of medieval overwash at Anegada, British Virgin Islands (2012) (3)
Preliminary geologic map showing Quaternary deposits of the Lodi Quadrangle, California (1979) (3)
Holocene Liquefaction Near the Seattle Fault at the Issaquah Creek Delta (2002) (3)
Proceedings of the Geological Society of America Penrose Conference: Great Cascadia Earthquake Tricentennial (2000) (3)
Karachi tides during the 1945 Makran tsunami (2018) (3)
Incubation of Chile's 1960 Earthquake (2003) (2)
Earthquake forewarning in the Cascadia region (2015) (2)
Chance findings about early holocene tidal marshes of Grays Harbor, Washington, in relation to rapidly rising seas and great subduction earthquakes (2015) (2)
A tribute to George Plafker (2015) (2)
A digital elevation model for simulating the 1945 Makran tsunami in Karachi Harbour (2018) (2)
Lower Glacial Lakes Missoula and Clark Fork Ice Dams (2013) (2)
Upper Grand Coulee: New views of a channeled scabland megafloods enigma (2021) (2)
Thai Evidence for Recurrent Indian Ocean Tsunamis of the Last 3,000 Years (2007) (1)
Averting Surprises in the Pacific Northwest (1995) (1)
The Record of Pre‐Late Wisconsin Floods and Late Wisconsin Flood Features in the Cheney‐Palouse Scabland (2013) (1)
Sand and mud deposited by Hurricane Katrina on Deer Island , Biloxi Bay (2007) (1)
Generalized geologic map of the Rio Vista 15-minute Quadrangle, California (1979) (1)
Stratigraphic and Geomorphic Evidence for Dozens of Last‐Glacial Floods (2013) (1)
Stratigraphic and Geomorphic Evidence for Dozens of Last‐Glacial Floods (2013) (1)
Holocene Intertidal Deposits of Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California: ABSTRACT (1980) (1)
Coastal topography - Anegada, British Virgin Islands, 2014 (2016) (1)
Searching for Pre-2004 Tsunami Deposits in Thailand (2007) (1)
Afterword to 3rd University of Washington Press printing of USGS Professional Paper 1707, "The Orphan Tsunami of 1700" (2018) (0)
The Columbia Valley and Columbia River Gorge (2013) (0)
Supplemental material: Extreme waves in the British Virgin Islands during the last centuries before 1500 CE (2017) (0)
Uncertainty in turbidite correlations along the Cascadia Subduction Zone (2012) (0)
Exploring the Cause of Catastrophic Caribbean Inundation in 1200-1480 C.E. Using Numerical Models Compared with Geological Evidence (2016) (0)
Master Cycles of Land-Level Change and Great-Earthquake Recurrence in Cascadia, Northeast Japan, and Southern Chile (2004) (0)
Erratum (1983) (0)
Further Evidence for Medieval Faulting along the Puerto Rico Trench (2013) (0)
Renewal of Tidal Forests in Washington State after a Subduction Earthquake in A.D. 1700: Volume 56, Number 2 (2001), pages 139–147 (2002) (0)
Linking middle‐school teachers to EarthScope (2006) (0)
Erratum (1994) (0)
Geoslicer sampling of liquefaction in the New Madrid seismic zone, central United States (2002) (0)
Erratum (2017) (0)
Averting earthquake surprises in the Pacific Northwest (2001) (0)
Observing the Greatest Earthquakes: AGU Chapman Conference on Giant Earthquakes and Their Tsunamis: Viña del Mar and Valparaíso, Chile, 16–20 May 2010 (2010) (0)
Corrigendum to “Renewal of Tidal Forests in Washington State after a Subduction Earthquake in A.D. 1700” [Quaternary Research, 56, 2, 139–147 (2001)] (2015) (0)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Geology of Holocene Liquefaction Features Along the Lower Columbia River At Marsh, Brush, Price, Hunting, and Wallace Islands, Oregon and Washington (2010) (0)
Erratum (1981) (0)

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