Landslide tsunami vulnerability in the Ligurian Sea: Case study of the 1979 October 16 Nice international airport submarine landslide and of identified geological mass failures

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 724-740

  Ioualalen, M ^a   Migeon, S ^a   Sardoux, O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b GIS CURARE   (France)

Author keywords

Europe; Numerical solutions; Submarine landslides; Tsunamis

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; FAILURE MECHANISM; MASS MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEAFLOOR; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; TSUNAMI; TSUNAMI EVENT; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ALPES MARITIMES; FRANCE; LIGURIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NICE; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR;

EID: 77953110978     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04572.x     Document Type: Article

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