The great 1787 Mexican tsunami

Natural Hazards

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 569-576

  Núñez Cornú, Francisco J ^a   Ortiz, Modesto ^b   Sánchez, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Historical tsunami; Southern Mexico; Tsunami hazards; Tsunami modeling; Tsunami wave height

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING; THEORETICAL STUDY; TSUNAMI; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING;

ACAPULCO; GUERRERO; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; OAXACA; PACIFIC COAST [MEXICO]; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; TEHUANTEPEC;

EID: 54949085780     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-008-9239-1     Document Type: Article

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