Numerical simulation of the 7 February 1963 tsunami in the Bay of Corinth, Greece

¹P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
²Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
³Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Abstract

[1]  The paper addresses the event that occurred in the Bay of Corinth, Greece, on 7 February 1963. The tsunami was produced by a submarine landslide in the mouth of the local Salmenikos River. The paper presents preliminary numerical results obtained in terms of an elastoplastic model for the surface water waves generated by the landslide and propagated onto the coast. The wave propagation is analyzed as a function of the landslide movement. The inferred results are compared with those obtained in terms of other models.

Received 21 October 2006; accepted 30 October 2006; published 28 November 2006.

Keywords: tsunami generation, shallow water equations, aseismic tsunami, sedimentary mass.

Index Terms: 3070 Marine Geology and Geophysics: Submarine landslides; 3285 Mathematical Geophysics: Wave propagation; 4255 Oceanography: General: Numerical modeling; 4564 Oceanography: Physical: Tsunamis and storm surges.

Citation: Lobkovsky, L. I., R. Kh. Mazova, I. A. Garagash, and L. Yu. Kataeva (2006), Numerical simulation of the 7 February 1963 tsunami in the Bay of Corinth, Greece, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 8, ES5003, doi:10.2205/2006ES000210.