Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) records exhibit spatial and temporal variability that arises mainly from the interaction of eustatic (land ice volume and thermal expansion) and isostatic …
BF Atwater, S Musumi-Rokkaku, K Satake, Y Tsuji… - 2016 - books.google.com
A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted having felt no earthquake; they …
BF Atwater, E Hemphill-Haley - 1997 - books.google.com
This pattern of long and short recurrence intervals at Willapa Bay may match the pattern of intervals between turbidity currents in Cascadia Channel, on the abyssal sea floor 200 km …
RD Hyndman, K Wang - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
An important but poorly known part of the earthquake hazard at near‐coastal cities of western North America from southern British Columbia to northern California is from great …
AR Nelson, I Shennan, AJ Long - Journal of Geophysical …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Tidal‐wetland stratigraphy reveals that great plate boundary earthquakes have caused hundreds of kilometers of coast to subside at the Cascadia subduction zone. However …
Large, historically unprecedented earthquakes at the Cascadia subduction zone in western North America have left signs of sudden land level change, tsunamis, and strong shaking in …
Large tsunamis strike the British Columbia coast an average of once every several hundred years. Some of the tsunamis, including one from Alaska in 1964, are the result of distant …
C Goldfinger, Y Ikeda, RS Yeats… - Seismological …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The recent 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku, Japan, and the 2004 Mw 9.15 Sumatra–Andaman superquakes have humbled many in earthquake research. Neither region was thought …
AR Nelson, BF Atwater, PT Bobrowsky, LA Bradley… - Nature, 1995 - nature.com
THE Cascadia subduction zone, a region of converging tectonic plates along the Pacific coast of North America, has a geological history of very large plate-boundary earthquakes1 …