Tsunami hazard scenarios in the Adriatic Sea domain
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Author(s)
Paulatto, M
Pinat, T
Romanelli, F
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The tsunami phenomenon is mainly detected in oceanic domains but it can also occur in small basins as the Adriatic Sea. The presence of great waves has been recorded a few times in the past centuries on the Adriatic shorelines, therefore this suggests the idea to evaluate which could be the maximum amplitude reached by a possible future tsunami event. In this framework we calculate several synthetic mareograms applying to the shallow water basin case both the theory of modal summation by Panza et al. (2000) and the theory of the Green's function by Yanovskaya et al. (2003). The first is applied to the case of tsunamis generated by an offshore source, the second to the case of tsunamis generated by an inland source. Both kinds of tsunamigenic events did already occur in the Adriatic domain, as witnessed in many catalogues (Caputo and Faita, 1984; Bedosti and Caputo, 1986; Tinti et al., 2004) and also pointed out in the recent "Catalogue of reported tsunami events in the Adriatic Sea" (see Appendix).
We calculate synthetic mareograms varying those parameters which are the most influencing in tsunami generation, such as magnitude, focal depth, water layer thickness, etc., in order to estimate the expected values of tsunami maximum amplitude and arrival time, in the whole Adriatic basin, for the selected scenarios.
We calculate synthetic mareograms varying those parameters which are the most influencing in tsunami generation, such as magnitude, focal depth, water layer thickness, etc., in order to estimate the expected values of tsunami maximum amplitude and arrival time, in the whole Adriatic basin, for the selected scenarios.
Date Issued
2007-04-26
Date Acceptance
2007-04-10
Citation
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2007, 7 (2), pp.309-325
ISSN
1684-9981
Publisher
European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Start Page
309
End Page
325
Journal / Book Title
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Volume
7
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© 2007 The Authors. This work is licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
Subjects
Strategic, Defence & Security Studies
0406 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience
0403 Geology
Publication Status
Published