Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-369-2019
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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
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15 Feb 2019
Research article |  | 15 Feb 2019

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

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

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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.
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