The El Salvador and Philippines Tsunamis of August 2012: Insights from Sea Level Data Analysis and Numerical Modeling

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 171, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3437-3455

  Heidarzadeh, Mohammad ^a,b   Satake, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

DART; earthquake; El Salvador earthquake; Fourier analysis; numerical modeling; Philippines earthquake; spectral analysis; tide gauge; Tsunami; wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SEA LEVEL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIDE GAGES; TSUNAMIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

DART; DOMINANT PERIODS; EL SALVADOR EARTHQUAKES; FAR-FIELD TSUNAMI; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; MAXIMUM WAVE HEIGHT; PHILIPPINES; TIDE GAUGES;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

EARTHQUAKE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TIDE GAUGE; TSUNAMI; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BALTRA; ECUADOR; EL SALVADOR [CENTRAL AMERICA]; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS; HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; KUSHIMOTO; PHILIPPINES; WAKAYAMA [KINKI];

EID: 84919337985     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-014-0790-2     Document Type: Article

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