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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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Tsunamis and intense tropical storms compete as viable mechanisms for catastrophic marine inundations of coastlines …
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124(4):57–171, 1998), we simulate locally, regionally and distant-generated tsunamis. Local tsunami source models use more … smaller inside the harbor than outside. However, historical accounts, recent tsunamis and our predictions show that San Diego … structures, as observed in recent historic tsunamis. More recently, following the M <Subscript> w </Subscript> 8.8 February 27 …
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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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During two distinct earthquakes occurred on March 7, 1867 and October 6, 1944, tsunami waves were also observed at some localities around the Gulf of Edremit, NE Aegean Sea. The first event (M <Subscript>w</Subscript> = 6.8) mostly affected the city of Mitilini of Lesvos Island while the Gulf of Edremit-Ayvacık...</subscript>
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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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geotectonic settings. The recent occurrence of tsunamis due to the megathrust tsunamigenic north Sumatra earthquake (Mw 9.3) with … of crustal heterogeneity in seismogenesis and in causing the strong shakings and tsunamis. The nature and extent of the …
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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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