Are tilt measurements useful in detecting tsunamigenic submarine landslides?

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Brune, Sascha ^a   Babeyko, Andrey Y ^a   Sobolev, Stephan V ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Modeling; Submarine landslide; Tilt measurement; Tiltmeter; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749094748     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GC002491     Document Type: Article

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