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Subaqueous Landslides

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On July 17, 1998 an earthquake shook the north-eastern shores of Papua New Guinea. The earthquake itself was not a particularly powerful one, and did not elicit much concern among the population, used to live on a seismic land. But after some minutes the sea level began to fall rapidly, unveiling the sea bottom along the shore. After short time, a first pulse of a series of three tsunami waves was travelling landward. Water towered 15 m above normal level, killing about 3,000 persons.

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De Blasio, F.V. (2011). Subaqueous Landslides. In: Introduction to the Physics of Landslides. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1122-8_9

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