Great tsunamigenic earthquakes during the past 1000 yr on the Alaska megathrust

Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 687-690

  Shennan, Ian ^a   Barlow, Natasha ^a   Carver, Gary ^b   Davies, Frank ^a   Garrett, Ed ^a   Hocking, Emma ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Carver Geologic Inc   (United States)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; LANDFORMS; TSUNAMIS;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; MAJOR HAZARDS; MULTI-SEGMENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND; RADIOCARBON DATA;

EARTHQUAKES;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMIC HAZARD; THRUST; TSUNAMI;

ALASKA; KODIAK ISLAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905160576     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G35797.1     Document Type: Article

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