New study on the 1941 Gloria Fault earthquake and tsunami

Baptista, Maria Ana; Miranda, Jorge Miguel; Batlló, Josep; Lisboa, Filipe; Luis, Joaquim; Maciá, Ramon

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1967-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 8

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 1967–1977, 2016

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1967-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 1967–1977, 2016

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1967-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 8

Research article 22 Aug 2016

Research article | 22 Aug 2016

New study on the 1941 Gloria Fault earthquake and tsunami

Maria Ana Baptista et al.

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Final revised paper (published on 22 Aug 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 10 May 2016)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Referee Comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 05 Jun 2016
- AC1: 'REPLY TO REFEREE 1', Maria Ana Baptista, 07 Jul 2016
RC2: 'Co-seismic deformation or submarine landslide? That's the remaining question...', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Jul 2016
- AC2: 'reply to referee 2', Maria Ana Baptista, 07 Jul 2016

Short summary

This is a new study on the 25 November 1941 earthquake and tsunami, Northeast Atlantic. The tsunami was recorded from Morocco to the UK. We present a new epicentre location and use tsunami data to compute the tsunami source. Results show that the earthquake ruptured a segment of the Eurasia–Nubia plate boundary. Other segments of the plate boundary may rupture and generate similar events. These conclusions are important for tsunami hazard assessment in the Northeast Atlantic.