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pole mounted sirens has been used to provide an early public alert of future tsunamis. However, studies in the 1960s showed … systematically with understanding of the meaning of the sirens. An additional issue is that warning times for tsunamis generated … warning signs of such tsunamis may provide the earliest warning to residents. Analysis of a survey subgroup from Hilo suggests …
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For centuries, inhabitants of coastal areas have suffered from the effects of tsunamis. Turkey, with a coastline of … 8333 km, has experienced many tsunamis.Historical records reveal that, during the observation period over 3000 years, the … coastal and surrounding areas of Turkey have been affected by more than ninety tsunamis. These tended to cluster around the …
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A tsunami catalogue for Central America is compiledcontaining 49 tsunamis for the period 1539–1996,thirty seven of them … are in the Pacific and twelve inthe Caribbean. The number of known tsunamis increaseddramatically after the middle of the … near the coast in earlier times. The preliminary regionalization of the earthquakessources related to reported tsunamis …
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The primary use of the natural hazards data archived at the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) and co-located World Data Center for Solid Earth Geophysics (WDC for SEG) is for the mitigation of future disasters. Among the responsibilities of NGDC/WDC for SEG is archiving and disseminating...
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On 28 February 1969, the coasts of Portugal, Spain and Morocco were affected by sea waves generated by a submarine earthquake (Ms=7.3) with its epicenter located off Portugal. The propagation of this tsunami has been simulated by a finite element numerical model solving the Boussinesq equations....
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Destructive tsunamis are infrequent comparedwith other natural disasters, andtheir evidences tend to disappear quickly … collectedby field survey teams as soon as possible. Since tsunamis are always triggered by the simultaneous or in …
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El presente documento está destinado para la información y referencia en la Cuarta Reunión del Diálogo Regional-Red de Desastres Naturales, en el que participan los países de América Latina y el Caribe. El estudio trata de la definición y recomendación de las actividades e instrumentos...
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of the confidence-interval bounds. The inverse algorithm is applied to hindcast two major tsunamis generated from the …
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The Caribbean Sea region is well known for its hurricanes, and less known for tsunamis. As part of its responsibilities …
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