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Numerical Simulation of the 1918 Puerto Rico Tsunami

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  • A. Mercado
  • W. McCann

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The Caribbean Sea region is well known for its hurricanes, and less known for tsunamis. As part of its responsibilities in hazard assessment and mitigation, the U.S.A. Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Puerto Rico Civil Defense, funded a pilot study to perform a numerical simulation of the 1918 Puerto Rico tsunami, one of the most deadly in the region. As part of the study a review has been made of the tectonic and tsunamigenic environment around Puerto Rico, the fault parameters for the 1918 event have been estimated, and a numerical simulation has been done using a tsunami propagation and runup model obtained through the Tsunami Inundation Modeling for Exchange (TIME) program. Model results have been compared with the observed runup values all along the west coast of Puerto Rico. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998

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  • A. Mercado & W. McCann, 1998. "Numerical Simulation of the 1918 Puerto Rico Tsunami," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 18(1), pages 57-76, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:18:y:1998:i:1:p:57-76
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1008091910209
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    1. Stéphan T. Grilli & Maryam Mohammadpour & Lauren Schambach & Annette R. Grilli, 2022. "Tsunami coastal hazard along the US East Coast from coseismic sources in the Açores convergence zone and the Caribbean arc areas," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 111(2), pages 1431-1478, March.

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