Tsunami simulations of the 1867 Virgin Island earthquake: Constraints on epicenter location and fault parameters

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 995-1009

  Barkan, Roy ^a   ten Brink, Uri ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORMS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; FAULT DIMENSION; FAULT ORIENTATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; ISLAND ARC; LATERAL MOTION; LESSER ANTILLES; LOSS OF LIFE; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; MULTIBEAM ECHO SOUNDER; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RELATIVE AMPLITUDE; RUPTURE LENGTH; SEISMIC PROFILES; SOURCE REGION; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS; TSUNAMI SIMULATION; TSUNAMI WAVES; VIRGIN ISLANDS; WAVE PHASE;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; BATHYMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SEISMIC WAVES; TSUNAMIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT ZONE; ISLAND ARC; SEISMIC SOURCE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TSUNAMI; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANEGADA PASSAGE; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; VIRGIN ISLANDS;

EID: 77952611841     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090211     Document Type: Article

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