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Ribeiro, A., Mendes-Victor, L., Matias, L., Terrinha, P., Cabral, J., Zitellini, N. (2009). The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake: A Review and the Proposal for a Tsunami Early Warning System in the Gulf of Cadiz. In: The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake: Revisited. Geotechnical, Geological, and Earthquake Engineering, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8609-0_26
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