Tsunamigenic predecessors to the 2009 Samoa earthquake

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 128-140

  Okal, Emile A ^a   Borrero, José C ^b,c   Chagué Goff, Catherine ^d,e  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

^c Amalgamates Solutions and Research Ltd   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Historical earthquakes; Samoa; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FORECASTING METHOD; SEISMOGRAM; SOCIAL IMPACT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TSUNAMI; WAVE GENERATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

SAMOA;

EID: 79958843992     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.12.007     Document Type: Review

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