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SUBMITTER: Schnyder JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5095707 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20161104
Submarine slope failures are a likely cause for tsunami generation along the East Coast of the United States. Among potential source areas for such tsunamis are submarine landslides and margin collapses of Bahamian platforms. Numerical models of past events, which have been identified using high-resolution multibeam bathymetric data, reveal possible tsunami impact on Bimini, the Florida Keys, and northern Cuba. Tsunamis caused by slope failures with terminal landslide velocity of 20 ms<sup>-1</s ...[more]