Lituya bay landslide impact generated mega-tsunami 50th anniversary

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 166, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 153-175

  Fritz, Hermann M ^a   Mohammed, Fahad ^a   Yoo, Jeseon ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Landslide; Landslide generated tsunami; Natural hazard; Near field wave characteristics; Nonlinear gravity water waves; Slide energy conversion; Three phase flow; Tsunami; Wave runup

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GRAVITY WAVE; KINEMATICS; LANDSLIDE; LASER METHOD; NATURAL HAZARD; NUMERICAL MODEL; TSUNAMI; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE RUNUP;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 62849088202     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-008-0435-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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