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Research article
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15 Feb 2019
Research article |
| 15 Feb 2019
| 15 Feb 2019
The Lituya Bay landslide-generated mega-tsunami – numerical simulation and sensitivity analysis
José Manuel González-Vida
Dpto. de Matemática Aplicada, ETSII, Universidad de Málaga,
29080, Málaga, Spain
Dpto. de Análisis Matemático, Estadístice e Invetigación Operativa y Matemática Aplicada,
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, 29080, Málaga,
Spain
Manuel Jesús Castro
Dpto. de Análisis Matemático, Estadístice e Invetigación Operativa y Matemática Aplicada,
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, 29080, Málaga,
Spain
Carlos Sánchez-Linares
Dpto. de Análisis Matemático, Estadístice e Invetigación Operativa y Matemática Aplicada,
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, 29080, Málaga,
Spain
Marc de la Asunción
Dpto. de Análisis Matemático, Estadístice e Invetigación Operativa y Matemática Aplicada,
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, 29080, Málaga,
Spain
Sergio Ortega-Acosta
Unit of Numerical Methods, SCAI, Universidad de Málaga,
29080, Málaga, Spain
Diego Arcas
NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental
Laboratory (PMEL), Seattle, WA, USA
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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.
In 1958, at Lituya Bay in Alaska, the largest tsunami wave ever recorded took place. Since then,...
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