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Appendix C: Relative Hazards of Near- and Far-field Tsunami Sources
Pages 219-222

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... Atlantic seaboard, from its nearby landslides and its exposure to hypothetical tsunamis from the Puerto Rico Trench.3 Below are summaries of tsunami hazard studies in Alaska, Oregon, and California that allow direct comparison between local and distant. ALASKA Nearby tsunami sources dominate the hazard depicted on tsunami inundation maps of Kodiak, Homer, and Seldovia -- communities in the vicinity of the rupture area of the giant 1964 Alaska earthquake.
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From page 220...
... tsunami than for a far-field (eastern Aleutian) tsunami, according to an inundation map prepared by the State of Oregon in 2008 for the tourist town of Cannon Beach.8 A similar contrast is apparent in maps, of the nearby town of Seaside, that were prepared a few years earlier by a group of federal, state, and local scientists.9 The Seaside maps show contrasting observations (inundation limits and sedimentary deposits of the 1964 Alaskan tsunami, versus sedimentary deposits of the 1700 Cascadia tsunami)
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... 2007.Tsunami inundation at Crescent City, California generated by 2007. Tsunami earthquakes along the Cascadia subduction zone.
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