The Australian tsunami database: A review

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 218-240

  Goff, James ^a   Chagué Goff, Catherine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; database; deaths; palaeotsunami; South Pacific; tsunami

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; TSUNAMI; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE RUNUP;

AUSTRALIA; EAST NUSA TENGGARA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; JAVA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; PACIFIC COAST [AUSTRALIA]; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SUMBA; SUNDA ISLES; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA]; WARRNAMBOOL;

EID: 84899680100     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133314522282     Document Type: Review

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