Estimating the effect of Earth elasticity and variable water density on tsunami speeds

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 492-496

  Tsai, Victor C ^a   Ampuero, Jean Paul ^a   Kanamori, Hiroo ^a   Stevenson, David J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

elasticity; tsunami; variable density

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY; ELASTIC DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; SPEED;

ARRIVAL TIME; COMPRESSIBILITY CORRECTION; ELASTIC EFFECTS; FIRST-ORDER; SHALLOW-WATER; TSUNAMI WAVES; VARIABLE DENSITY; WATER DENSITY;

TSUNAMIS;

CORRECTION; DEFORMATION; EARTH; ELASTICITY; SEAWATER; SHALLOW WATER; TSUNAMI;

EID: 84878181832     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50147     Document Type: Article

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