RT Journal Article
T1 Volcano collapse and tsunami generation in the Bismarck Volcanic Arc, Papua New Guinea
A1 Silver, Eli
A1 Day, Simon
A1 Ward, Steve
A1 Hoffmann, Gary
A1 Llanes Estrada, Pilar
A1 Driscoll, Neal
A1 Appelgate, Bruce
A1 Saunders, Steve
AB During a cruise on the R/V Kilo Moana in 2004, we mapped 12 debris avalanches from volcanoes in the Bismarck volcanic arc, estimated their sizes and computed the size of potential tsunami run-up in major local population centers from these features. We used the towed side-scan instrument HAWAII MR1, the hull-mounted EM120 system for swath bathymetry and backscatter intensity, a shallow penetration chirp system, several bottom camera tows and selected cores. We calibrate our computations with the known tsunami run-up of the Ritter collapse. Even the small collapses may have had significant run-up on near-by coastlines. Had any of the collapses we have identified occurred in modern times each would affect a presently populated region of the coastline to a moderate or significant degree.
PB Elsevier Science Publishers
SN 0377-0273
YR 2009
FD 2009-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43582
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43582
LA eng
NO National Science Foundation
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 may 2024