Panel on Engineering and the Panel on Oceanography, were particularly 

 interested in the tsunami aspects of the earthquake. Their interest, 

 together with that of the Corps of Engineers, resiolted in the U. S. Army 

 Coastal Engineering Research Center initiating a contract with Science 

 Engineering Associates to make an engineering study of the effects of this 

 tsunami, and from these to derive conclusions as to engineering applica- 

 tions and approaches for preventing or mitigating tsunami damage. This 

 contract was sponsored by the Coastal Engineering Research Center, and 

 administered through its Research Division. 



This report is a final report on this study, and was prepared by Dr. 

 Basil W. Wilson (Director of Engineering Oceanography, Science Engineering 

 Associates) and Mr. Alf T?$rum, then with Science Engineering Associates, 

 but now returned to his former affiliation with the River and Harbor 

 Research Laboratory at the Technical University of Norway, Trondheim. 



The authors would like to express their appreciation for the help of 

 Messrs. Takashi Umehara and George Zwior who, in addition to much of the 

 drafting work, undertook much painstaking research and detailed measurements 

 from photographs and other sources in the compilation of the damage maps 

 of Kodiak, Seward, and Valdez. The authors also have greatly appreciated 

 the personal interest and encouragement of Dr. George Housner (Chairman of 

 the Panel on Engineering of the NAS Committee on the Alaska Earthquake), 

 Mr. Doak Cox (Chairman of the Panel on Oceanography of that Committee) and 

 the members of their respective panels, as also of Dr. Konrad Krauskopf and 

 Mr. William Petrie, respectively Chairman and Executive Secretary of that 

 Committee: also the personal interest and help of Thorndike Saville, Jr., 

 Chief, Research Division and Richard H. Allen, Chief, Publications Branch, 

 both of the Coastal Engineering Research Center. The authors state their 

 recognition that it is impossible to make individual acknowledgment to 

 all of the many people, authors, and agencies that have contributed either 

 verbal information or written and photographic material; however, as far as 

 possible, their contributions have been acknowledged in the text or in the 

 figures. The authors have greatly appreciated the cooperation of all of 

 these. 



At the time of publication Joseph M. Caldwell was Acting Director of 

 the Coastal Engineering Research Center. 



NOTE: Comments on this publication are invited. Discussion will be 

 published in the next issue of the CERC Bulletin. 



This report is published under authority of Public Law l66, T9th 

 Congress, approved July 31, 19^5, as supplemented by Public Law 172, 88th 

 Congress, approved November 7, 1963. 



