Browsing Departamento de Física by Subject "PACIFIC COAST"
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A first estimation of tsunami hazard of the Pacific coast of Costa Rica from local and distant seismogenic sources
(Springer, 2021-06-04)Costa Rica has been affected by several local and distant tsunamis in the past, but the historical information is scarce and incomplete. Its Pacific coast stretches for over a thousand kilometers, and tsunami hazard has ... -
Lepidochelys olivacea status and its relationship with nest management on the eastern coast in the Pacifico of Guatemala
(Universidad Nacional (Costa Rica), 2021)Marine turtles are reptiles that have lived in the Earth’s oceans and nested on the beaches starting several million years ago and also have coexisted with coastal communities since humans colonized beach areas across the ... -
Modeling the Tsunami Potential along the Pacific Coast of Central America
(2018)Along the Pacific of Central America the Cocos plate subducts beneath the Caribbean plate, at the Middle America Trench (MAT). There are no records of mega earthquakes originated there; probably associated to the low ... -
Tsunami Exercises on a Remote Basis: Costa Rican experiences
(Seismological Society of America, 2021-04-21)As part of the guidelines to obtain the Tsunami Ready recognition from IOC/ UNESCO, the Pacific communities of Tamarindo and Uvita were required to perform a tsunami exercise. On the 16 March 2020 started in Costa Rica the ...