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On the possibility of tsunami formation as a result of water discharge into seismic bottom fractures

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A fundamentally new mechanism of tsunami generation as a result of water discharge into rapidly opening seismic fractures of the bottom is proposed. A mathematical model of the phenomenon developed within the framework of the linear potential theory is presented. The main parameters of the problem that affect the characteristics of the formed wave are revealed.

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  1. Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Far East Division, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Nauki 1b, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 693022, Russia

    B. W. Levin

  2. Moscow State University, Vorob’evy gory, Moscow, 119992, Russia

    M. A. Nosov

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Original Russian Text © B.W. Levin, M.A. Nosov, 2008, published in Izvestiya AN. Fizika Atmosfery i Okeana, 2008, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 122–126.

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Levin, B.W., Nosov, M.A. On the possibility of tsunami formation as a result of water discharge into seismic bottom fractures. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 44, 117–120 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433808010131

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