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    • Caribbean and Adjacent Regions Tsunami Sources and Models (CATSAM) Map Viewer 

      Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Arcos, Nicolas; VARNER, JESSE; López, Alberto M. (2018)
      Since 2011, UNESCO - Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Experts Meetings and CaribeWave exercises have resulted in a variety of tsunami models of credible scenarios that would impact the Caribbean and adjacent ...
    • Characterizing tsunami signals from the Hunga Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai eruption and its effects on the Caribbean 

      Sostre-Cortés, Jelis; Vanacore, Elizabeth A.; von Hillebrandt-Andrade, Christa; Watlington, Roy A.; Joseph, Erouscilla P.; Dourado, Francisco; Colón Rodríguez, Benjamín; Fontaine, Fabrice J.; Chacón Barrantes, Silvia; Paris, Raphael; Robertson, Richard E.A.; Mercado, Aurelio; Gómez Ramos, Octavio; McNamara, Daniel E.; Soto, Stephanie; Clouard, Valerie; Brome, Alison; Aliaga, Bernardo; Kong, Laura S.L.; Deroussi, Sebastien (American Geophysical Union, 2022-12-13)
      The Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai eruption of January 15 2022, was a rare geological event, resulting in atmospheric pressure waves being recorded around the world. The event caused significant environmental consequences, ...
    • Integrating Volcanic Sources into the Tsunami Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions 

      Von Hillebrandt-Andrade, Christa; Clouard, Valerie; Sostre-Cortés, Jelis; Vanacore, Elizabeth; Aliaga, Bernardo; Angove, Michael; Arcos, Nicolas; Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Dourado, Francisco; Gómez Ramos, Octavio; Joseph, Erouscilla; Kong, Laura; Lynch, Lloyd; McCreery, Charles; McNamara, Daniel; Paris, Raphael; Rodríguez, Lizzette; Watlington, Roy (Sociedad Sismológica Americana (SSA), 2023-04-17)
      One of the goals of the UN Decade Ocean Science Tsunami Programme is that by 2030 actionable notifications are issued for all tsunamis, irrespective of source. In the Caribbean, 14% of all probable and definite historical ...
    • Modeling the Tsunami Potential along the Pacific Coast of Central America 

      Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia (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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...