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Caribbean tsunami and earthquake hazards studies
The Caribbean Program
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ew sea floor map of the Puerto Rico Trench
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tress interaction and earthquake hazard for the northeast Caribbean
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ubmarine slope failures north of Puerto Rico and their tsunami potential
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ypothesis for the formation of the island of Puerto Rico and the collapse of the Puerto Rico Trench
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uerto Rico tsunami warning and mitigation program
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uerto Rico Seismic Network
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sunami Research at the USGS
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eismic and tsunami hazards in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
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ew seafloor map of the Puerto Rico trench helps assess earthquake and tsunami hazards in the northwest Caribbean
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tress interaction between subduction earthquakes and forearc strikeslip faults: Modeling and application to the northern Caribbean plate boundary
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ubmarine slides north of Puerto Rico and their tsunami potential
- Caribbean Tsunami Hazard, edited by A. Mercado and P. Liu, World Scientific Publishers, Singapore, p. 67-90, 2006.
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ertical motions in the Puerto Rico trench and Puerto Rico and their cause
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ize distribution of submarine landslides and its implication to tsunami hazard in Puerto Rico
, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L11307, doi:10.1029/2006GL26125, 2006.
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ubmarine landslide as the source for the October 11, 1918 Mona Passage tsunami: Observations and modeling
, Marine Geology, v. 254, pp. 35-46, 2008.
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