Tsunami hazard and exposure on the global scale

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 110, Issue 1-4, 2012, Pages 58-73

  Løvholt, Finn ^a   Glimsdal, Sylfest ^a   Harbitz, Carl B ^a   Zamora, Natalia ^a   Nadim, Farrokh ^a,d   Peduzzi, Pascal ^b   Dao, Hy ^b,c   Smebye, Helge ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN GEOTECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b DEWA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Global study; Hazard assessment; Literature review; Population exposure; Tsunamis

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 2004; LINE TRANSECT; LITERATURE REVIEW; SEISMIC SOURCE; WATER LEVEL; WAVE RUNUP;

EID: 84855249599     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.10.002     Document Type: Review

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