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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mercado, A. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Numerical simulation of the 1918 Puerto Rico Tsunami |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1998 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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p.57-76 |
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| Dates of publication and/or sequential designation |
July |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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The Caribbean Sea region is well known for its hurricanes, and less known for tsunnamis. 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. - Reproduced |
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Caribbean sea |
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Risk assessment |
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Historical earthwuakes |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Tsunamis |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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McCann, W. |
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Natural Hazards |
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