Probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment at Seaside, Oregon, for near-and far-field seismic sources

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Gonzalez F I ^a   Geist, E L ^b   Jaffe, B ^c   Kanoglu U ^d   Mofjeld, H ^e   Synolakis, C E ^f   Titov, V V ^g   Areas, D ^a   Bellomo, D ^h   Carlton, D ⁱ   Horning, T ^j   Johnson, J ^k   Newman, J ^a   Parsons, T ^b   Peters, R ^l   Peterson, C ^m   Priest, G ⁿ   Venturato, A ^o   Weber, J ^h,p   Wong, F ^b   Yalciner, A ^d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^g NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h Federal Emergency Management Agency   (United States)

ⁱ Adolfson Associates Inc   (United States)

^j Homing Geoscience   (United States)

^k Northwest Hydraulics Consultants   (United States)

^l Robert Peters Geologic   (United States)

^m PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries   (United States)

^o Pierce Co Medical Examiners Office   (United States)

^p FEMA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY FACTOR; SEA LEVEL; SEISMOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL PROBABILITIES; CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; FAR-FIELD; LOCAL SOURCE; MAXIMUM AMPLITUDE; PRIMARY SOURCES; PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TSUNAMI HAZARDS; TSUNAMI INUNDATION; TSUNAMI RISK;

TSUNAMIS;

BATHYMETRY; COASTAL ZONE; FLOODING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MAPPING METHOD; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC SOURCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TOPOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76849089307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC005132     Document Type: Article

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