Five centuries of tsunamis and land-level changes in the overlapping rupture area of the 1960 and 2010 Chilean earthquakes

Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 995-998

  Ely, Lisa L ^a   Cisternas, Marco ^b   Wesson, Robert L ^c   Dura, Tina ^d  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVEL CHANGE; RUPTURE AREAS;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HISTORICAL RECORD; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBSIDENCE; TSUNAMI EVENT; UPLIFT;

CHILE;

EID: 84909580102     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G35830.1     Document Type: Article

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