Tsunami hazard assessment in El Salvador, Central America, from seismic sources through flooding numerical models.
El Salvador is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America; its coast has an approximate length of 320 km, 29 municipalities and more than 700 000 inhabitants. In El Salvador there were 15 recorded tsunamis between 1859 and 2012, 3 of them causing damages and resulting in hund...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2013-11-01
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Series: | Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences |
Online Access: | http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/13/2927/2013/nhess-13-2927-2013.pdf |