Selected publications

• Kilbourne, K.H., Weil-Accardo, J., Feuillet, N., Deschamps, P., Xu, Y.-Y., Shen, C.-C., Sun, H., Halley, R.B., and Atwater, B.F., 2025, Dating a medieval tsunami with uranium-series techniques on Caribbean corals: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 52, no. 19, article e2024GL114448e, 11 p., https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL114448.
• Atwater, B.F., Yamaguchi, D.K., and Pearl, J.K., 2024, Earthquake effects surveyed during the nineteenth century as ecological features of Chinookan tidelands: Northwest Science, v. 97, no. 1–2, p. 78–98, https://doi.org/10.3955/046.097.0109.
• Atwater, B.F., Hasan, H., Naeem, G., Kakar, D.M., Humayun, A., Seshachalam, S., Hasan, N.A., Usman, A., Lodhi, H.A., Ahmed, S., Wright, L.M., and Adams, L.M., 2021, Karachi effects of the Makran earthquake and tsunami of November 1945: Mercury spilled, tide gauge impaired, seawalls overrun, boats displaced, mosque flooded: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, IOC Brochure 2020-7, 44 p., https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000376067.
• Atwater, B.F., ten Brink, U.S., Cescon, A.L., Feuillet, N., Fuentes, Z., Halley, R.B., Nuñez, C., Reinhardt, E.G., Roger, J.H., Sawai, Y., Spiske, M., Tuttle, M.P., Wei, Y., and Weil-Accardo, J., 2017, Extreme waves in the British Virgin Islands during the last centuries before 1500 CE: Geosphere, v. 13, no. 2, p. 301–368, https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01356.1.
• Jankaew, K., Atwater, B.F., Sawai, Y., Choowong, M., Charoentitirat, T., Martin, M.E., and Prendergast, A., 2008, Medieval forewarning of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Thailand: Nature, v. 455, no. 7217, p. 1228–1231, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07373.
• Cisternas, M., Atwater, B.F., Torrejon, F., Sawai, Y., Machuca, G., Lagos, M., Eipert, A., Youlton, C., Salgado, I., Kamataki, T., Shishikura, M., Rajendran, C.P., Malik, J.K., Rizal, Y., and Husni, M., 2005, Predecessors of the giant 1960 Chile earthquake: Nature, v. 437, no. 7057, p. 404–407, doi:10.1038/nature03943.
• Atwater, B.F., Musumi-Rokkaku, S., Satake, K., Tsuji, Y., Ueda, K., and Yamaguchi, D.K., 2005, The orphan tsunami of 1700—Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in North America: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1707, in association with University of Washington Press, 133 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1707.
• Atwater, B.F., and Hemphill-Haley, E., 1997, Recurrence intervals for great earthquakes of the past 3,500 years at northeastern Willapa Bay, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 108 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1576.
• Atwater, B.F., 1986, Pleistocene glacial-lake deposits of the Sanpoil River valley, northeastern Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1661, 39 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/b1661.
• Atwater, B.F., Hedel, C.W., and Helley, E.J., 1977, Late Quaternary depositional history, Holocene sea-level changes, and vertical crustal movement, southern San Francisco Bay, California: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1014, 15 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/pp1014.