Confidence levels for tsunami-inundation limits in northern Oregon inferred from a 10,000-year history of great earthquakes at the Cascadia subduction zone

Natural Hazards

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-73

  Priest, George R ^a   Goldfinger, Chris ^b   Wang, Kelin ^c   Witter, Robert C ^a   Zhang, Yinglong ^d   Baptista, António M ^d  

^a Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascadia; Deterministic; Earthquake; Oregon; Paleoseismic; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PALEOSEISMICITY; RUPTURE; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TSUNAMI;

CANNON BEACH; CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; OREGON; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955172385     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-009-9453-5     Document Type: Article

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