... ABSTRACT After the tsunami of the 2011 off the north-east Japan Earthquake, a survey of the disaster in the residential area of the coastal plain of Miyagi Prefecture was carried out. The damage of structures is explained by photos. It emerges that the tsunami height is more than 8 m...

...). Warming of permafrost in the eastern part of the Arctic Coastal Plain was also reported by Osterkamp and Jorgenson (2006). Degradation of ice wedges has occurred during last decades over vast areas of northern Alaska (Jorgenson et al., 2006). Thickness of the saturated active layer usually does not exceed...