Written records of historical tsunamis in the northeastern South China Sea - Challenges associated with developing a new integrated database

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1793-1806

  Lau, A Y A ^a   Switzer, A D ^b   Dominey Howes, D ^c   Aitchison, J C ^a   Zong, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; HISTORICAL RECORD; NATURAL DISASTER; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; TSUNAMI EVENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; TAIWAN;

EID: 77956372599     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-10-1793-2010     Document Type: Article

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