James Goff is Honorary Professor of Tsunami Research at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and Visiting Professor at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Until 2016, he was Deputy Director of the PANGEA (Paleontology, Geobiology, and Earth Archives) Research Centre and Director of the Australia-Pacific Tsunami Research Centre at UNSW. He has co-edited three books and written over 250 peer-reviewed publications, including an online tsunami database for New Zealand. He has appeared in numerous documentaries, including those of Discovery Channel and National Geographic.

Walter Dudley is Professor Emeritus of Marine Geology and Oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He previously served as Chair of the Marine Science Department and Director of the Kalakaua Marine Education Center for the University, and he served as a Professor of Marine Geology and Oceanography for over 30 years. In 1994, he and tsunami survivor, Jeanne Johnston, founded the Pacific Tsunami Museum, where he currently serves as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council. He has written six books about tsunamis, published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, and appeared in over 30 television documentaries for National Geographic, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Travel Channel, Disney, and Weather Channel.

• Introduction


• Chapter 1: The Case of the Disappearing Lighthouse


• Chapter 2: How Weird Squiggles led from Sheaves of Rice to the Depth of the Seas


• Chapter 3: Voices From the Past


• Chapter 4: The World's Oldest Tsunami Victim at the Gateway to the Pacific--and Beyond


• Chapter 5: The Monster of Lituya Bay


• Chapter 6: The Perils of Freshwater Tsunamis


• Chapter 7: Tsunamis and the US Navy


• Chapter 8: 1964, Alaska: Tsunami


• Chapter 9: Strange, but True


• Chapter 10: Megasharknado


• Chapter 11: Saved by the Baguette


• Chapter 12: 1755, Lisbon: The Benefit of Brothels


• Chapter 13: Storegga: No Referendum for this Brexit


• Chapter 14: 1960, Chile: Did the Earth Move for You?


• Chapter 15: Boxing Day: The World's Worst Disaster of the 21st Century


• Afterword