Dive summary:

• A subcommittee of the American Society of Civil Engineers, comprising professionals from the West Coast of the U.S., is looking at how building codes could be revised to make structures more resilient in the face of pounding waves from tsunamis.
• In a bit of fatalism, the group is focusing on commercial structures, having concluded that there is little chance wood-framed residential structures could survive the onslaught regardless of code requirements.
• The engineers are looking at both the load effect of a large wave and how to diffuse it and at the other possible damage, such as scouring around foundations.

From the article:

Kent Yu of Degenkolb Engineers in Portland is one of the members of an American Society of Civil Engineers subcommittee drafting standards for "tsunami loads and effects." ...