The 2010 Chilean Tsunami Off the West Coast of Canada and the Northwest Coast of the United States

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 170, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 1529-1565

  Rabinovich, Alexander B ^a,b   Thomson, Richard E ^a   Fine, Isaac V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

1960 Great Chilean earthquake and tsunami; 2010 Chilean earthquake and tsunami; bottom pressure records; DART; NEPTUNE Canada; Rayleigh waves; spectral analysis; tide gauge records; tsunami numerical modeling; tsunami travel time

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM PRESSURES; DART; EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS; NEPTUNE-CANADA; TIDE GAUGES;

EARTHQUAKES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PORTS AND HARBORS; RAYLEIGH WAVES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIDE GAGES; TRAVEL TIME;

TSUNAMIS;

BOTTOM PRESSURE; CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; NOAA SATELLITE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TIDE GAUGE; TRAVEL TIME; TSUNAMI EVENT; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE REFLECTION;

CANADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880534216     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-012-0541-1     Document Type: Article

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