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Title: What caused the mysterious eighteenth century tsunami that struck the southwest Taiwan coast?
Authors: Li, Linlin
Switzer, Adam Douglas
Wang, Yu
Weiss, Robert
Qiu, Qiang
Chan, Chung-Han
Tapponnier, Paul
Keywords: South China Sea
Historical tsunami
Megathrust earthquake
Submarine mass failure
Numerical model
Issue Date: 2015
Source: Li, L., Switzer, A. D., Wang, Y., Weiss, R., Qiu, Q., Chan, C.-H., et al. (2015). What caused the mysterious eighteenth century tsunami that struck the southwest Taiwan coast?. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(20), 8498-8506.
Series/Report no.: Geophysical Research Letters
Abstract: Several different historical records allude to a disastrous tsunami on the southwestern Taiwan coast sometime between 1781 and 1782, with a reported death toll of more than 40,000. Despite consistent reports from southwest Taiwan, no corroborative information exists for neighboring shorelines in southeast China or northwest Luzon, Philippines, and a plausible source of this tsunami has never been identified. Neither a large earthquake from the Manila trench and active thrust faults nor a submarine volcanic eruption from the northern Luzon Arc can explain the very localized area affected and the physical phenomena described in the historical records. Comparing the results of 13 numerical models of tsunamis generated from different sources (earthquake, volcano, and submarine mass failure), we therefore suggest that a seismically triggered, submarine mass failure on the upper portion of the continental slope offshore from southwestern Taiwan is the most likely source of the eighteenth century event.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81101
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39069
ISSN: 0094-8276
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065567
Schools: Asian School of the Environment 
Research Centres: Earth Observatory of Singapore 
Rights: ©2015. The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
Fulltext Permission: open
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