Modeling of 500-year tsunamis for probabilistic design of coastal infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 970-985

  Cheung, Kwok Fai ^a   Wei, Yong ^b   Yamazaki, Yoshiki ^a   Yim, Solomon C S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascadia Subduction Zone; National Seismic Hazard Maps; Nonlinear shallow water model; Shock capturing scheme; Tsunami; Tsunami bore

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE SITES; CASCADIA; CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; COASTAL INFRASTRUCTURE; DESIGN OF BUILDINGS; EARTH SURFACE; FLOW CONDITION; LOGIC TREE; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; PLANAR FAULT; PROBABILISTIC DESIGN; SEISMIC HAZARD MAPS; SEISMIC LOAD; SHALLOW-WATER MODELS; SHOCK-CAPTURING; STRONG CORRELATION;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; PILE FOUNDATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMOLOGY; SHOCK WAVES; TSUNAMIS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

BRIDGE; COASTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LOADING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC DESIGN; SHALLOW WATER; TSUNAMI; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE-STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

OREGON; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); SILETZ BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960379458     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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