High tsunami frequency as a result of combined strike-slip faulting and coastal landslides

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 783-788

  Hornbach, Matthew J ^a   Braudy, Nicole ^b   Briggs, Richard W ^c   Cormier, Marie Helene ^d,e   Davis, Marcy B ^a   Diebold, John B ^e   Dieudonne, Nicole ^f   Douilly, Roby ^g   Frohlich, Cliff ^a   Gulick, Sean P S ^a   Johnson III, Harold E ^d   Mann, Paul ^a   McHugh, Cecilia ^b,e   Ryan Mishkin, Katherine ^b   Prentice, Carol S ^c   Seeber, Leonardo ^e   Sorlien, Christopher C ^h   Steckler, Michael S ^e   Symithe, Steeve Julien ^g   Taylor, Frederick W ^a   Templeton, John ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^e International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^f Bureau des Mines et de l'Energie   (Haïti)

^g Universite d'Etat de Haiti   (Haïti)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD SURVEY; SEDIMENTATION; SLOPE FAILURE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; TSUNAMI; UPLIFT;

EID: 78049471679     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo975     Document Type: Article

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