Tsunami magnitudes determined from ocean-bottom pressure gauge data around Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Baba, Toshitaka ^a   Hirata, Kenji ^a   Kaneda, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

COASTAL TIDES; PRESSURE GAUGE;

TSUNAMIS;

PRESSUREMETER; SEAFLOOR; TSUNAMI;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 3042747066     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019397     Document Type: Article

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