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100			_aMercado, A.
245			_aNumerical simulation of the 1918 Puerto Rico Tsunami
260			_c1998
300			_ap.57-76
362			_aJuly
520			_aThe 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
650			_aCaribbean sea
650			_aRisk assessment
650			_aHistorical earthwuakes
650			_aTsunamis
700			_aMcCann, W.
773			_aNatural Hazards
909			_a40454
999			_c40454 _d40454