Reconstructing hydrodynamic flow parameters of the 1700 tsunami at Cannon Beach, Oregon, USA

Natural Hazards

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 223-240

  Witter, Robert C ^a   Jaffe, Bruce ^a   Zhang, Yinglong ^b   Priest, George ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascadia subduction zone; Oregon; Sediment transport model; Tsunami deposit; Tsunami flow speed

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FLOW MODELING; GRAIN SIZE; HYDRODYNAMICS; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TSUNAMI; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CANNON BEACH; CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; OREGON; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863106686     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9912-7     Document Type: Article

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