Tsunamis from the 29 March and 5 May 2015 Papua New Guinea earthquake doublet (Mw 7.5) and tsunamigenic potential of the New Britain trench

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 5958-5965

  Heidarzadeh, Mohammad ^a   Gusman, Aditya Riadi ^a   Harada, Tomoya ^a   Satake, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kokopo earthquake of 29 March 2015; Kokopo earthquake of 5 May 2015; New Britain trench; Papua New Guinea; Solomon Sea; tsunami simulations

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES;

BRITAIN; KOKOPO EARTHQUAKE OF 29 MARCH 2015; KOKOPO EARTHQUAKE OF 5 MAY 2015; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SOLOMON SEA; TSUNAMI SIMULATION;

TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RUPTURE; SLIP; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRENCH; TSUNAMI; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO; CORAL SEA; NEW BRITAIN; NEW GUINEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; SOLOMON SEA;

EID: 84938995204     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064770     Document Type: Article

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