The destructive 1946 Unimak near-field tsunami: New evidence for a submarine slide source from reprocessed marine geophysical data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 6811-6818

  Von Huene, Roland ^a   Kirby, Stephen ^a   Miller, John ^b   Dartnell, Peter ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska Trench; tsunami landslide

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; EARTHQUAKES; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; LANDSLIDES; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SUBMARINES;

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; EARTHQUAKE SHAKING; FAR-FIELD TSUNAMI; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES; SUBMARINE SLIDES; TSUNAMI INUNDATION;

TSUNAMIS;

GEOPHYSICS; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SLIDING; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; TRANSECT; TSUNAMI;

ALASKA; ALASKA PENINSULA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; FOX ISLANDS; UNIMAK ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84911407620     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061759     Document Type: Article

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