Insights on the 2009 South Pacific tsunami in Samoa and Tonga from field surveys and numerical simulations

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 66-75

  Fritz, Hermann M ^a   Borrero, Jose C ^b,c   Synolakis, Costas E ^c,d   Okal, Emile A ^e   Weiss, Robert ^f   Titov, Vasily V ^g   Jaffe, Bruce E ^h   Foteinis, Spyros ^d   Lynett, Patrick J ^f   Chan, I Chi ⁱ   Liu, Philip L F ⁱ  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Amalgamates Solutions and Research Ltd   (New Zealand)

^c Univ of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^h U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

ⁱ Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Samoa; South Pacific; Tonga; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARTHQUAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; FIELD METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; TSUNAMI EVENT; WAVE RUNUP;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SAMOA; TONGA;

EID: 79956079486     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.03.004     Document Type: Review

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