Far field tsunami simulations of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake: Implications for tsunami hazard to the U.S. East Coast and the Caribbean

Marine Geology

Volumn 264, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 109-122

  Barkan, Roy ^a   ten Brink, Uri S ^b   Lin, Jian ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

1755 Lisbon earthquake; Azores Gibraltar plate boundary; Caribbean tsunami; tsunami modeling; U.S. East Coast

Indexed keywords

1755 LISBON EARTHQUAKE; AZORES-GIBRALTAR PLATE BOUNDARY; BAHAMAS; CARIBBEAN TSUNAMI; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; EAST COAST; FAR-FIELD EFFECT; FAR-FIELD TSUNAMI; FAULT ORIENTATIONS; FLORIDA; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; GULF OF CADIZ; HIGHER RESOLUTION; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; NEAR-FIELD; NEAR-FIELD EARTHQUAKES; NEARSHORE; NEWFOUNDLANDS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; POSSIBLE FUTURES; RELATIVE AMPLITUDE; SIMULATION RESULT; SOURCE LOCATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES; THRUST FAULTS; TSUNAMI EFFECTS; TSUNAMI HAZARDS; TSUNAMI SIMULATION; U.S. EAST COAST;

BATHYMETRY; CALCIUM; COASTAL ZONES; EARTHQUAKES; LANDFORMS; RISK PERCEPTION; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

TSUNAMIS;

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; LANDSLIDE; LISBON EARTHQUAKE 1755; PLATE BOUNDARY; THRUST; TSUNAMI;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN SEA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67650180058     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2008.10.010     Document Type: Article

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