Owen Ridge deep-water submarine landslides: Implications for tsunami hazard along the Oman coast

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 417-424

  Rodriguez, M ^a,b   Chamot Rooke, N ^b   Hebert H ^c   Fournier, M ^a   Huchon, P ^a  

^a Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^c DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN WAVE; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; TSUNAMI; VISCOPLASTICITY;

OMAN;

EID: 84874030301     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-417-2013     Document Type: Article

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