The nature of tsunami sources is reviewed, including source duration, displacement amplitudes, and areas and volumes of selected past earthquakes, slumps and slides that have or may have generated a tsunami. This review shows that the velocity of spreading of submarine slides and slumps (1ยฑ100 m/s)
Linking tsunami deposits, submarine slides and offshore earthquakes
โ Scribed by Alastair G Dawson
- Book ID
- 117699078
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 368 KB
- Volume
- 60
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1040-6182
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