On the cause of the 1908 Messina tsunami, southern Italy

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Billi, Andrea ^a   Funiciello, Renato ^a   Minelli, Liliana ^a   Faccenna, Claudio ^a   Neri, Giancarlo ^b   Orecchio, Barbara ^b   Presti, Debora ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; DATA REDUCTION; EARTHQUAKES; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC WAVES;

CATASTROPHIC EVENTS; SEISMOLOGICAL DATA;

TSUNAMIS;

BATHYMETRY; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; EARTHQUAKE; MORTALITY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOLOGY; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; TSUNAMI;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MESSINA [SICILY]; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 44349186715     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033251     Document Type: Article

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