The 1956 earthquake and tsunami in Amorgos, Greece

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1533-1554

  Okal, Emile A ^a   Synolakis, Costas E ^b,c,d   Uslu, Burak ^b,e   Kalligeris, Nikos ^c   Voukouvalas, Evangelos ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics   (Greece)

^e National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

Europe; Submarine landslides; Tsunamis

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; ALGORITHM; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATABASE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOCAL MECHANISM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC MOMENT; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; TECTONIC SETTING; TSUNAMI; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AEGEAN SEA; AMORGOS; CYCLADAS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 69149105348     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04237.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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