Numerical simulations of tsunami waves and currents for southern vancouver island from a Cascadia megathrust earthquake

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 164, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 465-492

  Cherniawsky, Josef Y ^a   Titov, Vasily V ^b   Wang, Kelin ^c   Li, Jing Yang ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cascadia subduction zone; Megathrust earthquake; Numerical modelling; Tsunami waves

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; TSUNAMI; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ASIA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; JUAN DE FUCA STRAIT; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; VANCOUVER ISLAND; VICTORIA [BRITISH COLUMBIA];

EID: 34147176857     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-006-0169-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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