Introduction

The South China Sea (SCS) and its adjacent small basins including Sulu Sea and Celebes Sea are commonly identified as tsunami-prone region by its historic records on seismicity and tsunamis. However, quantification of tsunami hazard in the SCS region remained a challenging issue due to highly complex tectonic setting and multiple seismic sources within and surrounding this area. According to historical records, a number of devastating tsunamis have occurred in the region. For example, the tsunami which attacked Keelung in 1867 is believed to have resulted in the loss of several hundred lives. More recently, the tsunami, generated by the M8.1 earthquake which swept Moro Gulf of the Celebes Sea in 1976, resulted in more than 8,000 dead or missing, 10,000 injured and 90,000 homeless (Solov’Ev et al., 1986). The most recent Mw 7.0 earthquake offshore of Taiwan in 2006 once again raised attention and awareness of tsunami hazard of the region.

The South China Sea Tsunami Workshop (SCSTW) was initiated in 2007 by an internationally recognized tsunami expert, Professor Philip L.-F. Liu at Cornell University, U.S.A. (Now serves as Vice President of National University of Singapore). To date, it has been conducted for 8 times in Asia-Pacific area. The workshop aims to weave an international academic net, in which strong interactions and collaborations among coastal physical oceanographers, geophysicists, and engineers from the countries in South China Sea Region were combined together. Through this workshop, potential devastating tsunami disaster and hazard mitigation in this region was profoundly discussed. For more information, please visit the SCSTW official website:http://tsunami.ihs.ncu.edu.tw/~scstw/index.html.

SCSTW-9 warmly welcomes not only the scientists in the fields of hydrodynamics and tsunami, but also in the fields of Seismology, Geology, Sedimentology, Disaster Management, and social science. The main topics for the SCSTW-9 include, but not limited to, the following:

The workshop will have keynote and invited speakers for each topical session.

Invited Speakers (By Aug. 24)

Prof. Philip Li-Fan Liu (Fellow of National Academy of Engineering, USA; National University of Singapore)

Prof. Frederic Dias (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Prof. Costas Synolakis (University of South California, USA)

Prof. Harry Yeh (Oregon State University, USA)

Associate Prof. Hermann Fritz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Prof. Hua Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Prof. Nguyen Hong Phuong (Institute of Geophysics, Vietnam)

Associate Prof. Tso-Ren Wu (National Central University, Taiwan)

Dr. Xiaoming Wang (GNS Science, New Zealand)

Dr. Linlin Li (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Workshop Dates

26 OCT. 2016    Registration

27 - 28 OCT. 2016    SCSTW-9   Visiting Tsunami Warning Facilities of NMEFC

29 OCT. 2016    Symposium Honoring Professor Philip L-F Liu’s 70th Birthday (For invited participants)

Venue

Beijing Friendship Hotel (北京友谊宾馆）

1 Zhongguancun South St. Beijing 100873 (北京市中关村南大街1号)

Tel: 0086－10 68498888

Website: http://www.bjfriendshiphotel.com

Registration

There will be no registration fee charged to our participants, however, the SCSTW do require all participants to complete the registration form( here ), preferably no later than 20 September 2016. The registration form can be sent to SCSTW-9 Secretariat via (scstw_9@163.com) . However, For participants outside of Chinese mainland, early registration no later than 10 September 2016 is strongly recommended to facilitate the visa application.

For inclusion in the proceedings, please submit a one-page long abstract to scstw_9@163.com before 1st October, 2016. The long abstract should follow the style and format of the example here:Template

Publications

A proceeding of the long abstracts will be issued. Selected researches presented in the SCSTW-9 may be invited to submit a full paper to the following journals for publication in a special issue or as a regular volume, all papers submitted to journals need to go through peer reviews according to the journal policies.

1. Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami

2. Journal of Hydrodynamics