Tsunamis and Tsunami Hazards in Central America
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- 作者：Mario Fernandez ; Enrique Molina ; Jens Havskov and Kuvvet Atakan
- 关键词：tsunamis ; earthquakes ; tsunami hazard ; wave
- 刊名：Natural Hazards
- 出版时间：2000
- 出版年：2000
- 期刊代码：33_0921030X
- 类别：soc
- 卷：22
- 期：2
- 页码：91-116
- 数据来源：sp
摘要
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 nineteenth century,since 43 events occurred between 1850 and 1996. This isprobably a consequence of the lack of populationliving near the coast in earlier times.The preliminary regionalization of the earthquakessources related to reported tsunamis shows that, inthe Pacific, most events were generated by theCocos-Caribbean Subduction Zone (CO-CA). At theCaribbean side, 5 events are related with the NorthAmerican-Caribbean Plate Boundary (NA-CA) and 7 withthe North Panama Deformed Belt (NPDB).