TSUNAMIGENIC SOURCES IN THE BAY OF PLENTY, NEW ZEALAND

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TSUNAMIGENIC SOURCES IN THE BAY OF PLENTY, NEW ZEALAND

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New Zealand sits in a precarious position astride the boundary between the Pacific and Australian Plates. There is a wide range of potential tsunamigenic sources in this area including fault movements, submarine landslides, volcanic activity, and other mechanisms. In addition, considerable prehistoric information indicates that large tsunamis have inundated the coastline several times in the past. A part of our work has been directed toward using historic and prehistoric tsunami data to evalu...

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2006-01-01

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Roy A. Walters / James Goff / Kelin Wang

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Science of Tsunami Hazards

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http://tsunamisociety.org/245walters.pdf

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tsunami / tsunami generation / earthquakes / faulting / Bay of Plenty / New Zealand / geology / tsunami waves / tsunami propagation / numerical modeling / Oceanography

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