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    • New records of historical tsunamis obtained from Costa Rican newspapers 

      Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Murillo Gutiérrez, Anthony; Rivera Cerdas, Fabio (American Geophysical Union, 2020-12-14)
      Costa Rica has few records of historical tsunamis, due to traditionally low populated coasts and moderate tsunami potential, among other reasons. As part of the writing of the first tsunami catalog of Costa Rica, the authors ...

    • Numerical modeling of tsunamis originated at Colombia-Ecuador Trench for Costa Rica 

      Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Rivera, Fabio; Murillo Gutiérrez, Anthony (IV Assembly of the Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission, LACSC 2022, 2022-10-04)
      Costa Rica is exposed to tsunamis at both Pacific and Caribbean coasts. Costa Rica has experienced 41 tsunamis since 1746 with moderated impact (Chacón-Barrantes et al., 2021), but the coastal population has increased ...

    • Numerical Simulation of Several Tectonic Tsunami Sources at the Caribbean Basin 

      Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Lopez-Venegas, Alberto; Macías, Jorge; Zamora, Natalia; Moore, Christopher; Llorente Isidro, Miguel (2016)
      According to the NGDC/WDS Global Historical Tsunami Database, the Caribbean Sea has experienced more than 100 historical tsunamis. The most recent tsunami observed in this basin was caused by the 2010 Haity Mw 7.0 earthquake ...

    • Ocean Decade Project: Integrating Coastal Hazard Early Warning Systems for the Tropical Americas and Caribbean(iCHEWS) 

      Von Hillebrandt-Andrade, Christa; Torres, Jair; Bayouth-Garcia, Desiree; Cabrera, Edgard; Wilson, Doug; Innis, Lorna; Pinardi, Nadia; Brome, Alison; Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Blythe-Mallett, Azra; Nibbs, Farah; Smail, Emily; Aliaga, Bernardo (IUGG, 2023-07-15)
      In June 2021, UNESCO IOC approved the Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme (ODTP) in response to the call to action by the UN Ocean Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030). The ODTP has two overarching ...

    • Progress in Preparing a Draft 10-Year Research, Development, and Implementation Plan for Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme (2021-2030) 

      Hayashi, Y; Tummala, S. K.; Angove, Michael; Barrientos, Sergio; Chacón Barrantes, Silvia; Coetze, David; Von Hillebrandt-Andrade, Christa; Rabinovich, Alexander; Rayahu, Harkunti; Schindele, Francois; Yahav, Amir; Aliaga Rossel, Bernardo; Bailey, Rick J.; Chang Seng, Dennis; Haidar, Angelos (2022-10-25)
      In December 2017, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 'United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)' resolution. It aims to significantly advance several research and technology ...

    • Tsunami causado por la erupción del volcán Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha’apai: registros en Costa Rica y lecciones aprendidas 

      Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Rivera, Fabio; Murillo Gutiérrez, Anthony (Colegio de geólogos de Costa Rica, 2022-06-29)
      El tsunami causado por la erupción del volcán Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha’apai fue el primer tsunami de origen volcánico registrado en Costa Rica y el número 41 del que se tiene registro. Fue ampliamente observado por muchas ...

    • Tsunami Exercises on a Remote Basis: Costa Rican experiences 

      Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Rivera Cerdas, Fabio (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 ...

    • Tsunami Threat Assessment for the North and Central Pacific Coast of Costa Rica 

      Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia (Seismological Research Letters, 2018)
      A joint international conference of the Seismological Society of America (SSA) and the Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission (LACSC) will be held in Miami, Florida on 14 – 17 May 2018. The conference is the ...

    • Tsunamis from Tectonic Sources along Caribbean Plate Boundaries 

      Lopez-Venegas, Alberto; Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Zamora, Natalia; Audermard, Franck; Dondin, Frederic; Clouard, Valerie; Lovholt, Finn; Harbitz, Carl Bonnevie; Vanacore, Elizabeth; Huérfano, Victo (2015)
      The Caribbean region, home to more than 100 million people, has seen for the last 500 years at Least 75 documented tsunamis (von Hillebrandt-Andrade, 2013). It has been estimated that more than 4500 people have perished ...

    • Tsunamis más grandes de la historia de Costa Rica 

      Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Murillo Gutiérrez, Anthony; Rivera, Fabio (Congreso Nacional de Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres y Adaptación al Cambio Climático, 2022-10-19)
      Aquí mostramos los tsunamis más grandes de la historia de Costa Rica a partir del Catálogo de tsunamis de Costa Rica, en el periodo de 1746-2021. En un país donde existe la creencia generalizada de que nunca hemos ...