Earthquake related tsunami hazard along the western coast of Thailand
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Earthquake related tsunami hazard along the western coast of Thailand
The primary background for the present study was a project to assist the authorities in Thailand with development of plans for how to deal with the future tsunami risk in both short and long term perspectives, in the wake of the devastating 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami. The study is focussed on defining and analyzing a number of possible future earthquake scenarios (m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1684-9981
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-6-979-2006