Geologic setting, field survey and modeling of the Chimbote, northern Peru, tsunami of 21 February 1996

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 154, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 513-540

  Bourgeois, Joanne ^a   Petroff, Catherine ^a   Yeh, Harry ^a   Titov, Vasily ^a,b   Synolakis, Costas E ^b   Benson, Boyd ^c   Kuroiwa, Julio ^d   Lander, James ^e   Norabuena, Edmundo ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b JISAO/University of Washington ^*  (United States)

^c Geo Engineers   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE INGENIERÍA   (Peru)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

Peru geology; Peru seismicity; Seismicity; Subduction zone; Tsunami; Tsunami earthquake; Tsunami modeling; Tsunami sediments

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TSUNAMI;

PERU;

EID: 0032748648     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240050242     Document Type: Article

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