Reverberations on the watery element: A significant, tsunamigenic historical earthquake offshore the Carolina coast

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 891-898

  Hough, Susan E ^a   Munsey, Jeffrey ^b   Ward, Steven N ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAWARE RIVER; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; OFFSHORE EARTHQUAKE; SEISMOTECTONICS; SIMPLE GEOMETRIES; SOUTH CAROLINA; TSUNAMI HAZARDS;

HAZARDS; TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; SEISMOTECTONICS; TRAVEL TIME; TSUNAMI;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DELAWARE BAY; DELAWARE RIVER; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; PENNSYLVANIA; PHILADELPHIA; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893784571     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: 19382057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0220120152     Document Type: Article

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