The tsunami triggered by the 21 May 2003 Boumerdès-Zemmouri (Algeria) earthquake: Field investigations on the French mediterranean coast and tsunami modelling

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1823-1834

  Sahal, A ^a   Roger, J ^b,c   Allgeyer, S ^b   Lemaire, B ^b   Hebert H ^b   Schindele F ^b   Lavigne, F ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOGRAPHIE PHYSIQUE   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SENSOR; TIDE GAUGE; TSUNAMI; WAVE MODELING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MEDITERRANEAN COAST [FRANCE]; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 71749086294     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: None    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-9-1823-2009     Document Type: Article

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