Real-Time Assessment of the 16 September 2015 Chile Tsunami and Implications for Near-Field Forecast

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 369-387

  Tang, Liujuan ^a,b   Titov, Vasily V ^b   Moore, Christopher ^b   Wei, Yong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

near field forecast; numerical modeling; The 2015 Chile tsunami; tsunami energy; tsunami forecast; tsunami source

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FLOODS; FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; MEASUREMENT COMPARISON; NEAR FIELDS; POST-EVENT ANALYSIS; REAL-TIME ASSESSMENT; SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS; SPECIFIC ORIENTATION; TSUNAMI FORECAST;

TSUNAMIS;

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FORECASTING METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANNING PROCESS; REAL TIME; SEARCH AND RESCUE; TSUNAMI EVENT;

CHILE;

EID: 84957948307     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-015-1226-3     Document Type: Article

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