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Synthetic Tsunami Simulations for the French Coasts

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Submarine Landslides and Tsunamis

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We analyzed the manifestation of tsunamis for the French coasts of the Mediterranean. Historical data of past tsunamis are analyzed to provide a representative set of potential “seismic” tsunami sources for the Ligurian Sea. Nonlinear shallow water model was used to simulate the propagation from initial displacements in the tsunami sources that were located at the places of historical tsunamis. The synthetic method was applied to study the characteristics of possible earthquake-generated tsunamis in the Ligurian Sea. It is found that tsunami manifestation on the French coasts has a very local character, and that the Western French Mediterranean coasts are protected from tsunamis generated in the Ligurian Sea.

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  1. Laboratoire de Mecanique et d’Acoustique, 31 Chemin Joseph Aiguier, 13402, Marseille, Cedex 20, France

    M. Francius

  2. Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ulyanov Street, 603600, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia

    E. Pelinovsky

  3. Applied Mathematics Departmen, Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University, 24 Minin Street, 603000, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    E. Pelinovsky & I. Riabov

  4. Institut de Recherche sur les Phenomenes Hors Equilibre, BP 146 49 rue Frederic Joliot-Curie, 13384, Marseille cedex 13, France

    C. Kharif

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Ocean Engineering Research Center, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

    Ahmet C. Yalçiner

  2. Institute of Applied Physics, Laboratory of Hydrophysics and Nonlinear Acoustics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    Efim N. Pelinovsky

  3. Department of Geological Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Emile Okal

  4. Department of Civil and Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Costas E. Synolakis

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Francius, M., Pelinovsky, E., Riabov, I., Kharif, C. (2003). Synthetic Tsunami Simulations for the French Coasts. In: Yalçiner, A.C., Pelinovsky, E.N., Okal, E., Synolakis, C.E. (eds) Submarine Landslides and Tsunamis. NATO Science Series, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0205-9_19

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