Real-time experimental forecast of the Peruvian tsunami of August 2007 for U.S. coastlines

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Feb 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008georl..3504609w&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 4, CiteID L04609

Physics

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Oceanography: Physical: Tsunamis And Storm Surges, Oceanography: Physical, Oceanography: Physical: Hydrodynamic Modeling

Scientific paper

At 23:41 UTC on 15 August 2007, an offshore earthquake of magnitude 8.0 severely damaged central Peru and generated a tsunami. Severe shaking by the earthquake collapsed buildings throughout the region and caused 514 fatalities. The tsunami resulted in three casualties and a representative maximum runup height of ~7 m in the near field. The first real-time tsunami data available came from a deep-ocean tsunami detection buoy within 1 hour of tsunami generation. These tsunami data were used to produce initial experimental forecasts within 2 hours of tsunami generation. The far-field forecasts indicated that the tsunami would not flood any of the 14 U.S. communities. Comparison with real-time tide gage data showed very accurate forecasts.

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