Merging tsunamis of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake detected over the open ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Song, Y Tony ^a   Fukumori, Ichiro ^a   Shum, C K ^b   Yi, Yuchan ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMAGE DETECTION; EARTHQUAKES; MERGING;

COASTAL AREA; COASTAL COMMUNITIES; EARLY WARNING; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; MODEL SIMULATION; OPEN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; RISK LEVELS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA FLOOR; SEAMOUNT CHAINS; TSUNAMI HAZARDS; WAVE HEIGHTS;

TSUNAMIS;

COASTAL ZONE; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; GPS; OPEN OCEAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEAMOUNT; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI EVENT; WAVE HEIGHT;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84863258363     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050767     Document Type: Article

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