Long-term perspectives on giant earthquakes and tsunamis at subduction zones

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue , 2007, Pages 349-374

  Satake, Kenji ^a   Atwater, Brian F ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascadia; Chile; Earthquake forecasting; Earthquake recurrence; Hokkaido; Paleoseismology; Sumatra

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; HISTORY; TECTONICS; TSUNAMIS;

FAULT; PALEOSEISMOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; PALEOSEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TSUNAMI; WARNING SYSTEM;

ASIA; CANADA; CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; CHILE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250673101     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.35.031306.140302     Document Type: Article

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