On the cause of the 1908 Messina tsunami, southern Italy

Details On the cause of the 1908 Messina tsunami, southern Italy On the cause of the 1908 Messina tsunami, southern Italy

Mar 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008georl..3506301b&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 6, CiteID L06301

Physics

6

Tectonophysics: Rheology And Friction Of Fault Zones (8034), Tectonophysics: Dynamics And Mechanics Of Faulting (8004), Physical Properties Of Rocks: Acoustic Properties, Physical Properties Of Rocks: Wave Attenuation

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A century after the catastrophic event, the sources of the 1908 Messina, Southern Italy, earthquake and tsunami, which caused at least 60,000 deaths, remain uncertain. Through a simple backward ray-tracing method, we convert the tsunami travel-time data reported in a 100-years-old paper into distances and find that the sources of the earthquake and tsunami are different. Overturning a long-held assumption, reconsideration of the available tsunami, bathymetric, seismic, and seismological data indicates that the tsunami was generated by an underwater landslide.

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