The Lituya Bay landslide-generated mega-tsunami –    numerical simulation and sensitivity analysis

González-Vida, José Manuel; Macías, Jorge; Castro, Manuel Jesús; Sánchez-Linares, Carlos; de la Asunción, Marc; Ortega-Acosta, Sergio; Arcas, Diego

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-369-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 2

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 369–388, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-369-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 369–388, 2019

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-369-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 2

Research article 15 Feb 2019

Research article | 15 Feb 2019

The Lituya Bay landslide-generated mega-tsunami – numerical simulation and sensitivity analysis

José Manuel González-Vida et al.

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RC1: 'Review of paper', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Oct 2018
- AC2: 'Answer to Reviewer #1', Jorge Macias, 08 Dec 2018
- AC3: 'Revised Manuscript???', Jorge Macias, 08 Dec 2018
RC2: 'Review of manuscript nhess-2018-224 by Gonzalez-Vida et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Nov 2018
- AC1: 'Answer to Reviewer #2', Jorge Macias, 08 Dec 2018

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (20 Dec 2018) by Maria Ana Baptista

AR by Jorge Macias on behalf of the Authors (21 Dec 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (03 Jan 2019) by Maria Ana Baptista

AR by Jorge Macias on behalf of the Authors (03 Jan 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

In 1958, at Lituya Bay in Alaska, the largest tsunami wave ever recorded took place. Since then, its numerical simulation has been a challenge and no numerical model has been able to reproduce, in the real geometry of the bay, the more than 200 m wave and the extreme run-up (climbing of the water up on land) of 524 m. The aim of our research, in the framework of a collaboration between the University of Malága (Spain) and NOAA (US), was to fulfil this gap at the same time as verifying our model.