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the 1964 Alaska tsunami

three phases of tsunami evolution:
• generation
• propagation
• runup

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Johnson, J.M., Satake, K., Holdahl, S.R., and Sauber, J., 1996, The 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake: Joint inversion of tsunami waveforms and geodetic data: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 101, no. B1, p. 523–532.

Kowalik, Z., and Murty, T.S., 1993, Numerical simulation of two-dimensional tsunami runup: Marine Geodesy, v. 16, p. 87–100.

Lander, J.F., 1996, Tsunamis affecting Alaska. 1737–1996: National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC): Key to Geophysical Research Documentation no. 31.

Murty, T.S., 1984, Storm Surges–Meteorological Ocean Tides: Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, v. 212, 897 p.

Okada, Y., 1985, Surface deformation due to shear and tensile faults in a half-space: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 75, p. 1135–1154.

Reid, R.O., and Bodine, B.R., 1968, Numerical model for storm surges in Galveston Bay: Journal of the Waterways and Harbors Division, v. 94, no. WWI, p. 33–57.

Troshina, E.N., 1996, Tsunami waves generated by Mt. St. Augustine volcano, Alaska: MS thesis, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 84 p.

Wilson, B.W., and Torum, A., 1968, The tsunami of the Alaskan Earthquake, 1964: Engineering evaluation: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Technical memorandum No. 25, 401 p.