Historical tsunami in the Makran Subduction Zone off the southern coasts of Iran and Pakistan and results of numerical modeling

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 774-786

  Heidarzadeh, Mohammad ^a   Pirooz, Moharram D ^a   Zaker, Nasser H ^a   Yalciner, Ahmet C ^b   Mokhtari, Mohammad ^c   Esmaeily, Asad ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND SEISMOLOGY IIEES   (Iran)

^d Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Historical tsunami; Indian Ocean; Makran Subduction Zone (MSZ); Numerical modeling; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ANALYSIS; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

SEISMIC GAP; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE;

TSUNAMIS;

COASTAL ZONES; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ANALYSIS; SEISMIC RESPONSE; TSUNAMIS;

DISPLACEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TSUNAMI; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE RUNUP;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; MAKRAN; PAKISTAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 42049118290     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2008.01.017     Document Type: Article

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