Assessment of tsunami hazard to the U.S. East Coast using relationships between submarine landslides and earthquakes

Marine Geology

Volumn 264, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 65-73

  ten Brink, Uri S ^a   Lee, Homa J ^b   Geist, Eric L ^b   Twichell, David ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

1929 Grand Banks earthquake; continental slope; landslide tsunami; slope stability; submarine landslide

Indexed keywords

1929 GRAND BANKS EARTHQUAKE; ATLANTIC COASTS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EAST COAST; GRAND BANKS; MICROSEISMICITY; NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICAN; POTENTIAL SOURCES; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSIS; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES; TSUNAMI HAZARDS; TSUNAMIGENIC;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EARTHQUAKES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LANDFORMS; LANDSLIDES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STABILITY; STRAIN RATE; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SUBMARINES; TSUNAMIS;

SLOPE PROTECTION;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GRAND BANKS EARTHQUAKE 1929; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LIQUEFACTION; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SEISMICITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; TSUNAMI;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67650165950     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2008.05.011     Document Type: Article

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