📚 Tsunamis

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The waves that start as tremors: generation, run-up, historic strikes, and what coastlines can and cannot do about them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject tsunamis in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Sweeping tsunamis	Louise Spilsbury	2003	14
The Indian Ocean tsunami	Murty, T. S.	2006	10
Tsunami recovery in Sri Lanka	Dennis B. McGilvray	2010	9
Ghosts of the tsunami	Richard Lloyd Parry	2017	8
Tsunamis and Floods (Graphic Natural Disasters)	Gary Jeffrey	2007	7
Tsunami!	Anne Rooney	2006	6
Post-Tsunami Recovery in Thailand	Monica Lindberg Falk	2014	6
Tsunamis in Peru-Chile	Patricia A. Lockridge	1985	5
Tsunamis	Mari C. Schuh	2010	5
Wave	Sonali Deraniyagala	2013	5
Swept Away	Rebecca Rissman	2017	5
Tidal Waves and Flooding (Natural Disasters)	Jane Walker	1992	4
The doors of the sea	David Bentley Hart	2005	4
Tsunami!	Jeff Putnam	2005	4
Tsunami impact assessment, 2005	Maldives. Ministry of Planning and Development	2006	4
Mama	Jeanette Winter	2006	4
Tsunami	Susumu Murata	2009	4
Post-disaster reconstruction	Matthew Clarke	2010	4
Dual Disasters	Jennifer Hyndman	2010	4
Tsunamis!	National Geophysical Data Center	1991	3
Tsunami research at the end of a critical decade	Gerald T. Hebenstreit	2001	3
Tsunami Man	Anthony D. Fredericks	2002	3
Tsunami	Geoff Tibballs	2005	3
Kita harus berubah!	Faisal H. Basri	2005	3
Wave of Destruction	Erich Krauss	2005	3
Nias membangun harapan menapak masa depan	J. Garang	2007	3
Tsunamis in the World	Stefano Tinti	2010	3
Tsunamis	Arthur Gullo	2014	3
Physics of Tsunamis	Boris W. Levin	2015	3
Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis : A Complete Introduction	David Rothery	2015	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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