Time and size of a giant earthquake in Cascadia inferred from Japanese tsunami records of January 1700

1996/01/01 by Kenji Satake, Kunihiko Shimazaki, Yoshinobu Tsuji +1 · 4 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Earthquake Detection and Analysis #Earthquake swarm #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #Historical record #History #Induced seismicity #Magnitude (astronomy) #Paleontology #Seismology #Series (stratigraphy) #Subduction #Tectonics #Tsunami earthquake #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · doi:10.1038/379246a0

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Citations

• Source mechanisms and tectonic significance of historical earthquakes along the nankai trough, Japan
• Major earthquakes and tsunamis in Chile during the period 1535 to 1955
• Size of great earthquakes of 1837–1974 inferred from tsunami data

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