Coastal Impacts of the March 11th Tohoku, Japan Tsunami in the Galapagos Islands

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 170, Issue 6-8, 2013, Pages 1189-1206

  Lynett, Patrick ^a   Weiss, Robert ^b   Renteria, Willington ^c   De La Torre Morales, Giorgio ^c   Son, Sangyoung ^a   Arcos, Maria Elizabeth Martin ^d,e   MacInnes, Breanyn Tiel ^e,f  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Instituto Oceanográfico y Antártico de la Armada del Ecuador   (Ecuador)

^d AMEC FOSTER WHEELER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; FLOODS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL MODELS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SURVEYS;

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKES; INSTANTANEOUS CURRENT; NATURAL WATERWAYS; OBSERVATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; STRONG CURRENTS; STRUCTURAL DAMAGES; TSUNAMI EFFECTS;

TSUNAMIS;

COASTAL ZONE; EARTHQUAKE; FLOODING; OCEAN TIDE; TSUNAMI;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; ISABELA [GALAPAGOS ISLANDS]; SAN CRISTOBAL [GALAPAGOS ISLANDS]; SAN SALVADOR [GALAPAGOS ISLANDS]; SANTA CRUZ [GALAPAGOS ISLANDS];

EID: 84883026345     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-012-0568-3     Document Type: Article

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