MODEL PREDICTIONS OF GULF AND SOUTHERN ATLANTIC COAST TSUNAMI IMPACTS FROM A DISTRIBUTION OF SOURCES

The West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center now issues tsunami warnings for the US Gulf and US /Canadian Atlantic coasts. Because there is less historical data for these regions than for the Pacific, numerical models have been used to make predictions of wave amplitudes, travel time, and “reach...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bill Knight
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tsunami Society International 2006-01-01
Series:Science of Tsunami Hazards
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Online Access:http://tsunamisociety.org/245knight.pdf