Tsunamis from Tectonic Sources along Caribbean Plate Boundaries

 

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Autores: Lopez-Venegas, Alberto, Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia, Zamora, Natalia, Audermard, Franck, Dondin, Frederic, Clouard, Valerie, Lovholt, Finn, Harbitz, Carl Bonnevie, Vanacore, Elizabeth, Huérfano, Victo
Formato: póster de congreso
Fecha de Publicación:2015
Descripción:The Caribbean region, home to more than 100 million people, has seen for the last 500 years at Least 75 documented tsunamis (von Hillebrandt-Andrade, 2013). It has been estimated that more than 4500 people have perished as a result (Dunbar et al, 2008; see Figure 2). The Working Group 2 (WG2) of the ICG/CARIBE-EWS in charge of Tsunami Hazard Assessment is a multinational group of experts from and outside the Caribbean region currently focusing on various tsunami aspects. The WG2 has been assigned the task of compiling a list of most credible sources from tectonic origin for the Caribbean nations. For this poster, a subgroup within the WG2 has been formed to evaluate published literature on tsunami sources and develop a comprehensive list based solely on credible sources evaluated through geological and geophysical studies, and seismology. This poster presents the sources and their justification as most-probable tsunami sources based on the context of crustal deformation due to Caribbean plate interacting with neighboring plates and deforming microplates within the plate`s boundaries.
País:Repositorio UNA
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Repositorio UNA
Lenguaje:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:null:11056/17448
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11056/17448
Palabra clave:TECTÓNICA GLOBAL
DESASTRES NATURALES
PLACAS
CARIBE