Impact of the 29 September 2009 South Pacific tsunami on Wallis and Futuna

Marine Geology

Volumn 271, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 297-302

  Lamarche, Geoffroy ^a   Pelletier, Bernard ^b   Goff, James ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alofi; Futuna; inundation; run up; tsunami warning

Indexed keywords

FLOW DEPTH; INUNDATION DISTANCE; LOCAL TIME; MAXIMUM RUN-UP; RUN-UP HEIGHTS; TSUNAMI WARNING;

LANDFORMS; WATER LEVELS;

TSUNAMIS;

DEPTH DETERMINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOOD DAMAGE; HABITAT TYPE; OCEAN TIDE; SEISMIC WAVE; TSUNAMI EVENT; WARNING SYSTEM; WATER FLOW;

ALOFI; HOORN ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); WALLIS AND FUTUNA;

EID: 77950626991     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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