Did a submarine landslide contribute to the 2011 Tohoku tsunami?

Marine Geology

Volumn 357, Issue , 2014, Pages 344-361

  Tappin, David R ^a   Grilli, Stephan T ^b   Harris, Jeffrey C ^b   Geller, Robert J ^c   Masterlark, Timothy ^d   Kirby, James T ^e   Shi, Fengyan ^e   Ma, Gangfeng ^f   Thingbaijam, K K S ^g   Mai, P Martin ^g  

^a British Geological Survey Keyworth   (Ukraine)

^b The University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d South Dakota School of Mines Technology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^f Old Dominion University   (United States)

^g KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Modeling; Submarine mass failure; Tohoku; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

MODELS; TSUNAMIS;

SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES; SUBMARINE MASS FAILURE; TOHOKU;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; LANDSLIDE; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC HAZARD; SLIP; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TRAVEL TIME; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; SANRIKU; TOHOKU;

EID: 84908417590     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2014.09.043     Document Type: Article

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