Estimation of tsunami risk for the coasts of Peru and Northern Chile

Natural Hazards

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 185-209

  Kulikov, Evgueni A ^a,b   Rabinovich, Alexander B ^a,b   Thomson, Richard E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chile; Earthquake; Peru; Return period; Seismic gap theory; Tsunami risk; Tsunami wave height

Indexed keywords

NATURAL HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMOLOGY; TSUNAMI;

CHILE; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 23844502325     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-004-4809-3     Document Type: Article

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