The 1867 Virgin Island tsunami: Observations and modeling

Oceanologica Acta

Volumn 26, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 609-621

  Zahibo, Narcisse ^a   Pelinovsky, Efim ^b   Yalciner, Ahmet ^c   Kurkin, Andrey ^d   Koselkov, Andrey ^d   Zaitsev, Andrey ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d NIZHNY NOVGOROD STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY N A R E ALEKSEEV   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Caribbean Sea; Numerical model; Shallow water theory; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; TSUNAMI;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CARIBBEAN SEA; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; LESSER ANTILLES; VIRGIN ISLANDS;

EID: 0344928473     PISSN: 03991784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00059-8     Document Type: Article

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