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TSUNAMIS: PAST EVENTS AND FUTURE
RISK
A Workshop
for the Under 35s Reinsurance Group, organised by the Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre, UCL
Tuesday, October 18th 2005
at The City Club, 19 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1DS
| 09.15-09.45 | Registration and refreshments | |
| 09.45-10.00 | Welcome from BUHRC Director (Professor Bill McGuire) Introductory remarks by the Chairman |
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| 10.00-10.30 | Introducing tsunamis (Dr. David Tappin, British Geological Survey) | |
| 10.30-11.00 |
The Indian Ocean tsunami: impacts and lessons (Dr. Tiziana Rossetto, BUHRC) | |
| 11.00-11.30 | Refreshments | |
| 11.30-12.00 | Tsunamis down-under (Professor Russell Blong, Benfield Australia) | |
| 12.00-12.30 | Volcanic tsunamis: past, present and future (Professor Bill McGuire, BUHRC) | |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00-14.30 | The Storegga Slide tsunami: a major prehistoric tsunami in the UK (Professor David Smith, University of Oxford) |
|
| 14.30-15.00 | Landslide tsunamis in the North Atlantic: prospects for another Storegga (Dr. David Long, British Geological Survey) | |
| 15.00-15.30 | Refreshments | |
| 15.30-16.00 | The threat posed by tsunamis to the UK (Dr. Brian Baptie, British Geological Survey) | |
| 16.00-16.30 | Engineering tools for tsunami risk assessment (Dr. Jane Smallman, HR Wallingford) | |
| 16.30-16.45 | Discussion and close of meeting |
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