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The Environmental Fluid Dynamics Lecture Series Presents a Seminar The Orphan Tsunami of 1700—North American and Japanese Clues to a Giant Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest Dr. Brian Atwater, NAS Senior Research Geologist U.S. Geological Survey Research Professor University of Washington Tuesday, January 19, 2016 127 Hayes-Healy 11am-12noon Abstract One winter's night in the year 1700, a mysterious tsunami flooded fields and washed away houses in Japan. It arrived without the warning that a nearby earthquake usually provides. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of the event, but nearly three centuries would pass before geological and dendrochronological discoveries in North America revealed the tsunami's source. Today this TransPacific detective story guides preparations for future earthquakes and tsunamis in North America's Cascadia region. Biography Brian Atwater is a geologist who works for the United States Geological Survey and is also a research professor at the University of Washington. He received his BS. At Stanford University and his Ph.D. at the University of Delaware. Dr. Atwater was nominated by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in 2005.