No. Registros Solicitud 1 5614 colombia

DE - DESCRIPTORS: alkaline-earth-metals; Atlantic-Ocean; biochemistry-; calcium-; Caribbean-Sea; Cenozoic-; chemical-ratios; Colombian-Basin; cores-; Foraminifera-; geochemistry-; glacial-environment; glaciomarine-environment; Globigerinacea-; Globigerinidae-; Globigerinoides-; Globigerinoides-sacculifer; Globorotalia-; Globorotalia-inflata; Globorotalia-menardii; Globorotalia-truncatulinoides; Globorotaliidae-; interglacial-environment; Invertebrata-; isotope-ratios; isotopes-; Leg-165; magnesium-; marine-environment; marine-sediments; metals-; Mg-Ca; microfossils-; Neogloboquadrina-dutertrei; North-Atlantic; O-18-O-16; Ocean-Drilling-Program; ODP-Site-999; oxygen-; paleo-oceanography; paleocirculation-; paleoecology-; paleosalinity-; paleotemperature-; planktonic-taxa; Protista-; Quaternary-; Rotaliina-; sea-surface-salinity; sea-surface-temperature; sediments-; stable-isotopes

CC - CATEGORY CODES: 24-Quaternary-geology; 02D-Isotope-geochemistry

DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Abstract; Serial; Conference-Document

BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic

MC - MAP COORDINATES: LAT: N124437; N124437; LONG: W0784422; W0784422.

RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute. Reference includes data supplied by the Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, United States

IS - ISSN: 0016-7592

CO - CODEN: GAAPBC

AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-065482

UD - UPDATE CODE: 200419

Registro 60 de 5614 - GeoRef : 2002-2004/12

TI - TITLE: Late Holocene evidence of coseismic subsidence on the San Juan Delta, Pacific coast of Colombia.

AU - AUTHORS: Gonzalez-Juan-L; Correa-Ivan-D

AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Universidad EAFIT, Departamento de Geologia, Medellin, Colombia

SO - SOURCE: Journal of Coastal Research. 17; 2, Pages 459-467. 2001.

PB - PUBLISHER: Coastal Education and Research Foundation (CERF). Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States. 2001.

CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: United-States

PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2001

LA - LANGUAGE: English

LS - LANGUAGE OF SUMMARY: Spanish

AB - ABSTRACT: The San Juan delta of Colombia formed under a complex physical setting. Among the unusual factors that controlled the delta formation are: its location in an area with one of the highest precipitation rate anywhere in the world, highly variable river discharge and high sea levels of short duration, both associated with El Nino-La Nina climatic disturbance, and high mesotidal range combined with a medium to low wave energy. Of all the aspects that make the physical setting complex, the high seismicity produced by the subduction of the Nazca plate under the South American plate, has perhaps, been the most important controlling factor in the Late Holocene development of the delta. Coring on its SW island retrieved soils buried, 1.2-1.5 m by intertidal deposits; the sharp contact between the soils and the mantling deposits, implies large sudden submergence, which is most simply explained as being coseismic, associated with the high seismicity of the area. Timing of the earthquake that caused subsidence, is placed around 500 years BP. Evidence from recent earthquakes along the South central Pacific coast of Colombia indicates that--subsidence >1 m requires a M 7.9 or greater earthquake.

DE - DESCRIPTORS: Cenozoic-; coastal-environment; Colombia-; cores-; coseismic-processes; deltaic-environment; deltaic-sedimentation; deltas-; depositional-environment; earthquakes-; facies-; Holocene-; lithostratigraphy-; Nazca-Plate; Paleosols-; plate-tectonics; Quaternary-; San-Juan-River-delta; sedimentation-; seismicity-; South-America; stratigraphy-; subsidence-

CC - CATEGORY CODES: 24-Quaternary-geology

DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Serial

BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic

MC - MAP COORDINATES: LAT: N040710; N040710; LONG: W0772837; W0772837.

IL - ILLUSTRATION: Refs: 41; illus. incl. sects., 1 table, sketch map.

RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.

IS - ISSN: 0749-0208

AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-065059

UD - UPDATE CODE: 200419

Registro 61 de 5614 - GeoRef : 2002-2004/12

TI - TITLE: The complex frequencies of long-period events as a probe of fluid compositions beneath volcanoes.

AU - AUTHORS: Kumagai-Hiroyuki; Chouet-Bernard-A

AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: U. S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States

BK - BOOK TITLE: In: IUGG99; abstracts.

BA - BOOK AUTHORS: Anonymous

SO - SOURCE: International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly = Union Geodesique et Geophysique Internationale Comptes Rendus de la ...Assemblee Generale. 99, WEEK B; Pages 153. 1999.

PB - PUBLISHER: IUGG. [location varies], International. 1999.

RP - RESEARCH PROGRAM: USGSOP (Non-USGS publications with USGS authors)

CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: International

PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 1999

CN - CONFERENCE INFORMATION: IUGG99. Birmingham, United Kingdom. July 26-30, 1999.

LA - LANGUAGE: English

DE - DESCRIPTORS: Alaska-; Asia-; autoregression-; Cenozoic-; Colombia-; East-Pacific-Ocean-Islands; elastic-waves; Far-East; fluid-dynamics; frequency-; gaseous-phase; Hawaii-; hydrothermal-conditions; Japan-; liquid-phase; long-period-waves; magmatism-; models-; Oceania-; oscillations-; Polynesia-; Quaternary-; regression-analysis; South-America; statistical-analysis; United-States; volcanoes-; waveforms-

CC - CATEGORY CODES: 19-Seismology; 24-Quaternary-geology

DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Abstract; Serial; Conference-Document

BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic

RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.

CO - CODEN: IGABAX

AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-064541

UD - UPDATE CODE: 200419

Registro 62 de 5614 - GeoRef : 2002-2004/12

TI - TITLE: Increasing the relevance of scientific information in hillside environments through understanding of local soil management in a small watershed of the Colombian Andes.

AU - AUTHORS: Oberthuer-T; Barrios-E; Cook-S; Usma-H; Escobar-G

AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Centro Internacional de Agricultura, Land Use Project, Cali, Colombia

SO - SOURCE: Soil Use and Management. 20; 1, Pages 23-31. 2004.

PB - PUBLISHER: CABI Publishing for the British Society of Soil Science. Cambridge, United Kingdom. 2004.

CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: United-Kingdom

PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2004

LA - LANGUAGE: English

AB - ABSTRACT: This article explores the question of how scientific information can improve local agronomic management using concepts of uncertainty classification and uncertainty management. Information and data on local management of soil fertility based on a local classification system of soil quality were collected from a small watershed in Cauca (Colombia). The analyses suggest that farmers hold local knowledge about soils at two levels. The first is based on empirical observations and refers to local knowledge about soils and landscape, which shows that the classes identified in the local soil quality classification are consistent with results obtained using measured soil parameters. At the second level, farmers have some awareness of ecological processes and the appropriate use of relationships between key soil characteristics and management options. It is argued that local knowledge is not sufficient to cope with uncertainty introduced by a rapidly changing agriculture, including, for example, increasing land pressure, unpredictable market forces and climate change. We have suggested how scientific knowledge can contribute to the solution, based on an analysis that relates Cohen's (Heuristic reasoning about uncertainty: an artificial intelligence approach. Pitman London, 1985) and Rowe's (Risk Analysis 14, 743-750, 1994) uncertainty concepts to local knowledge.

DE - DESCRIPTORS: agriculture-; Andes-; Cauca-Colombia; chemical-composition; classification-; climate-; climate-change; Colombia-; conservation-; drainage-basins; ecology-; economics-; elevation-; fertilization-; geochemistry-; geomorphology-; hills-; hydrology-; land-management; land-use; landscapes-; markets-; nutrients-; pH-; properties-; relief-; risk-assessment; slopes-; soil-management; soil-quality; soils-; South-America; statistical-analysis; topography-; uncertainty-; watersheds-

CC - CATEGORY CODES: 22-Environmental-geology; 25-Soils

DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Serial

BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic

MC - MAP COORDINATES: LAT: N020000; N030000; LONG: W0760000; W0773000.

IL - ILLUSTRATION: Refs: 50; 5 tables, sketch map.

RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.

IS - ISSN: 0266-0032

AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-063930

UD - UPDATE CODE: 200419

Registro 63 de 5614 - GeoRef : 2002-2004/12

BK - BOOK TITLE: Cranial osteology of Caiman crocodilus and implications for its systematic placement.

BA - BOOK AUTHORS: Triche-Nina-Elise

CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: United-States

PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2003

DG - DEGREE GRANTED: Master's

DI - DEGREE GRANTING INSTITUTION: University of Texas, Austin. Austin, TX, United States. Pages: 199. 2003.

LA - LANGUAGE: English

AB - ABSTRACT: Caiman crocodilus, or the spectacled caiman, is the most common of extant caimans and has been studied by a number of renowned anatomists. Its internal cranial morphology, however, has neither been described in great detail nor examined for phylogenetic purposes. For example, the complexity of the pneumatic and Eustachian passages in this species may provide systematically informative data. The ontogeny of Caiman has also not been well examined, especially not in a phylogenetic context, and knowledge of the species is thus lacking in a significant area of information. I initiated an investigation in an effort to discover new systematic characters for C. crocodilus. High-resolution Computed Tomography data were used to describe the osteology of Caiman crocodilus; each element of the skull was also studied for internal structures that are only visible through the use of CT. An ontogenetic series of the species was examined, allowing description of the ontogenetic trajectory of Caiman crocodilus. Finally, this study provides the baseline data for a re-evaluation of the systematic placement of Caiman by proposing new potential osteological and ontogenetic characters. These include characters taken from the morphology of the pneumatic and eustachian passages and from ontogenetic data.

DE - DESCRIPTORS: Alligatoridae-; Archosauria-; Caiman-crocodilus; Chordata-; Colombia-; computed-tomography; craniums-; Crocodilia-; Diapsida-; nomenclature-; ontogeny-; osteology-; phylogeny-; Reptilia-; skulls-; South-America; taxonomy-; Tetrapoda-; tomography-; Vertebrata-

CC - CATEGORY CODES: 11-Vertebrate-paleontology

DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Thesis-or-Dissertation

BL - BIB LEVEL: Monograph

IL - ILLUSTRATION: Refs: 68; illus. incl. 3 tables, 23 plates.

RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.

AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-063301

UD - UPDATE CODE: 200419

Registro 64 de 5614 - GeoRef : 2002-2004/12

TI - TITLE: Hf-Nd isotope constraints on the origin of the Cretaceous Caribbean Plateau and its relationship to the Galapagos Plume.

AU - AUTHORS: Thompson-P-M-E; Kempton-P-D; White-R-V; Kerr-A-C; Tarney-J; Saunders-A-D; Fitton-J-G; McBirney-A

AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: University of Leicester, Geology Department, Leicester, United Kingdom

SO - SOURCE: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 217; 1-2, Pages 59-75. 2004.

PB - PUBLISHER: Elsevier. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2004.

RP - RESEARCH PROGRAM: ODP (Ocean Drilling Program | DSDP (Deep Sea Drilling Project)

CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: Netherlands

PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2004

LA - LANGUAGE: English

AB - ABSTRACT: Formation of the Cretaceous Caribbean plateau, including the komatiites of Gorgona, has been linked to the currently active Galapagos hotspot. We use Hf-Nd isotopes and trace element data to characterise both the Caribbean plateau and the Galapagos hotspot, and to investigate the relationship between them. Four geochemical components are identified in the Galapagos mantle plume: two "enriched" components with epsilon Hf and epsilon Nd similar to enriched components observed in other mantle plumes, one moderately enriched component with high Nb/Y, and a fourth component which most likely represents depleted MORB source mantle. The Caribbean plateau basalt data form a linear array in Hf-Nd isotope space, consistent with mixing between two mantle components. Combined Hf-Nd-Pb-Sr-He isotope and trace element data from this study and the literature suggest that the more enriched Caribbean end member corresponds to one or both of the enriched components identified on Galapagos. Likewise, the depleted end member of the array is geochemically indistinguishable from MORB and corresponds to the depleted component of the Galapagos system. Enriched basalts from Gorgona partially overlap with the Caribbean plateau array in epsilon Hf vs. epsilon Nd, whereas depleted basalts, picrites and komatiites from Gorgona have a high epsilon Hf for a given epsilon Nd, defining a high-epsilon Hf depleted end member that is not observed elsewhere within the Caribbean plateau sequences. This component is similar, however, in terms of Hf-Nd-Pb-He isotopes and trace elements to the depleted plume component recognised in basalts from Iceland and along the Reykjanes Ridge. We suggest that the Caribbean plateau represents the initial outpourings of the ancestral Galapagos plume. Absence of a moderately enriched, high Nb/Y component in the older Caribbean plateau (but found today on the island of Floreana) is either due to changing source compositions of the plume over its 90 Ma history, or is an artifact of limited sampling. The high-epsilon Hf depleted component sampled by the Gorgona komatiites and depleted basalts is unique to Gorgona and is not found in the Caribbean plateau. This may be an indication of the scale of heterogeneity of the Caribbean plateau system; alternatively Gorgona may represent a separate oceanic plateau derived from a completely different Pacific plume, such as the Sala y Gomez.

DE - DESCRIPTORS: absolute-age; alkaline-earth-metals; Atlantic-Ocean; basalts-; Caribbean-Plateau; Caribbean-region; Caribbean-Sea; Colombia-; Cretaceous-; Deep-Sea-Drilling-Project; DSDP-Site-146; DSDP-Site-151; DSDP-Site-152; DSDP-Site-504; East-Pacific; East-Pacific-Ocean-Islands; enrichment-; experimental-studies; Galapagos-Islands; Galapagos-Rift; geochemistry-; Gorgona-Island; hafnium-; Hf-177-Hf-176; hot-spots; igneous-rocks; isotope-ratios; isotopes-; komatiite-; laboratory-studies; lava-; lead-; Leg-15; Leg-165; Lu-Hf; mantle-; mantle-plumes; Mesozoic-; metals-; Nd-144-Nd-143; neodymium-; North-Atlantic; Ocean-Drilling-Program; ODP-Site-1001; Pacific-Ocean; Pb-207-Pb-204; plate-tectonics; plateaus-; plutonic-rocks; radioactive-isotopes; rare-earths; South-America; Sr-87-Sr-86; stable-isotopes; strontium-; ultramafics-; volcanic-rocks

CC - CATEGORY CODES: 02D-Isotope-geochemistry; 05A-Igneous-and-metamorphic-petrology

DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Serial

BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic

MC - MAP COORDINATES: LAT: N030000; N030000; LONG: W0780000; W0781500.

LAT: S013000; N010000; LONG: W0890000; W0920000.

LAT: N154524; N154524; LONG: W0745436; W0745436.

LAT: N155243; N155243; LONG: W0743628; W0743628.

LAT: N150101; N150101; LONG: W0732435; W0732435.

LAT: N150659; N150659; LONG: W0692240; W0692240.

LAT: N011335; N011338; LONG: W0834348; W0834357.

IL - ILLUSTRATION: Refs: 77; illus. incl. 3 tables, geol. sketch map.

RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute. Reference includes data from CAPCAS, Elsevier Scientific Publishers, Amsterdam, Netherlands

IS - ISSN: 0012-821X

CO - CODEN: EPSLA2

AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-063222

UD - UPDATE CODE: 200419

Registro 65 de 5614 - GeoRef : 2002-2004/12

TI - TITLE: Seismic attenuation anomalies in northwestern South America (Colombia).

AU - AUTHORS: Vargas-Jimenez-C-A; Ugalde-A; Pujades-L-G; Canas-J-A

AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Departamento de Geociencias, Bogota, Colombia

BK - BOOK TITLE: In: Abstracts of the 73rd annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America.

BA - BOOK AUTHORS: Anonymous

SO - SOURCE: Seismological Research Letters. 74; 2, Pages 234. 2003.

PB - PUBLISHER: Seismological Society of America. El Cerrito, CA, United States. 2003.

CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: United-States

PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2003

CN - CONFERENCE INFORMATION: 73rd annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America. San Juan, PR, United States. April 29-May 3, 2003.

LA - LANGUAGE: English

DE - DESCRIPTORS: attenuation-; Colombia-; earthquakes-; plate-tectonics; seismic-anomalies; seismicity-; seismotectonics-; South-America; spatial-distribution; subduction-; tectonics-

CC - CATEGORY CODES: 19-Seismology

DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Abstract; Serial; Conference-Document

BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic

RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.

IS - ISSN: 0895-0695

CO - CODEN: #02565

AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-060540

UD - UPDATE CODE: 200418

Registro 66 de 5614 - GeoRef : 2002-2004/12

TI - TITLE: Neotectonics of the South America-Caribbean Plate boundary zone; a GIS-based compilation of faults, epicenters, and focal mechanisms from Colombia to the Barbados accretionary prism.

AU - AUTHORS: Mann-P; Escalona-A; Wood-L

AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States

BK - BOOK TITLE: In: Abstracts of the 73rd annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America.

BA - BOOK AUTHORS: Anonymous

SO - SOURCE: Seismological Research Letters. 74; 2, Pages 226-227. 2003.

PB - PUBLISHER: Seismological Society of America. El Cerrito, CA, United States. 2003.

CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: United-States

PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2003

CN - CONFERENCE INFORMATION: 73rd annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America. San Juan, Puerto Rico. April 29-May 3, 2003.

LA - LANGUAGE: English

DE - DESCRIPTORS: Antilles-; Barbados-; Caribbean-Plate; Caribbean-region; Colombia-; data-bases; data-management; data-processing; earthquakes-; epicenters-; faults-; focal-mechanism; geographic-information-systems; Global-Positioning-System; information-management; information-systems; Lesser-Antilles; neotectonics-; plate-boundaries; plate-tectonics; risk-assessment; seismic-risk; seismicity-; seismotectonics-; South-America; South-American-Plate; tectonics-; Venezuela-; West-Indies

CC - CATEGORY CODES: 19-Seismology; 16-Structural-geology

DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Abstract; Serial; Conference-Document

BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic

RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.

IS - ISSN: 0895-0695

CO - CODEN: #02565

AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-060468

UD - UPDATE CODE: 200418

Registro 67 de 5614 - GeoRef : 2002-2004/12

TI - TITLE: Macrofloral remains from the Lower Cretaceous of the Leiva region (Colombia).

AU - AUTHORS: van-Waveren-I-M; van-Konijnenburg-van-Cittert-J-H-A; van-der-Burgh-J; Dilcher-D-L

AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden, Netherlands

SO - SOURCE: Scripta Geologica. 123; Pages 1-39. 2002.

PB - PUBLISHER: Rijksmuseum van Geologie en Mineralogie. Leiden, Netherlands. 2002.

CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: Netherlands

PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2002

LA - LANGUAGE: English

AB - ABSTRACT: Lower Cretaceous plant fossils are described systematically from marine deposits near Villa de Leiva (Boyaca region, Colombia). Specimens originating from the same localities kept at the Florida Museum of Natural History (Gainesville) were included in the systematic description. The plant fossils belong to the Pteridophyta, the Cycadophyta, the Coniferophyta, and to taxa of uncertain affinity which, following previous authors, are referred to the angiosperms. Two new species of Coniferophyta are described, viz. Cupressinocladus hoedemaekeri sp. nov. and Brachyphyllum winklerprinsii sp. nov. Also, Thuites sutamarchensis Huertas is transferred to the genus Cupressinocladus.

DE - DESCRIPTORS: Angiospermae-; assemblages-; biogeography-; Boyaca-Colombia; Brachyphyllum-winklerprinsii; Colombia-; cones-; Coniferales-; Cretaceous-; Cupressinocladus-hoedemaekeri; Cupressinocladus-sutamarchensis; Cycadales-; fruits-; Gymnospermae-; Lower-Cretaceous; Mesozoic-; morphology-; new-names; new-taxa; Plantae-; Pteridophyta-; seeds-; South-America; Spermatophyta-; taphonomy-; taxonomy-; Thuites-sutamarchensis; Villa-de-Leiva-Colombia

CC - CATEGORY CODES: 09-Paleobotany

DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Serial

BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic

MC - MAP COORDINATES: LAT: N053000; N053000; LONG: W0730000; W0730000.

IL - ILLUSTRATION: Refs: 28; illus. incl. 9 plates, 4 tables, sketch map.

RF - REFERENCE SOURCE: GeoRef, Copyright 2004, American Geological Institute.

IS - ISSN: 0375-7587

CO - CODEN: SCGLA5

AN - ACCESSION NUMBER: 2004-059961

UD - UPDATE CODE: 200418

Registro 68 de 5614 - GeoRef : 2002-2004/12

TI - TITLE: Tsunami hazards in El Salvador.

AU - AUTHORS: Fernandez-Mario; Ortiz-Figueroa-Modesto; Mora-Raul

AF - AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Central America Seismological Center, San Jose, Costa Rica

BK - BOOK TITLE: In: Natural hazards in El Salvador.

BA - BOOK AUTHORS: Rose-William-I (editor); Bommer-Julian-J (editor); Lopez-Dina-L (editor); Carr-Michael-J (editor); Major-Jon-J (editor)

SO - SOURCE: Special Paper - Geological Society of America. 375; Pages 435-444. 2004.

PB - PUBLISHER: Geological Society of America (GSA). Boulder, CO, United States. 2004.

CP - COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION: United-States

PY - PUBLICATION YEAR: 2004

LA - LANGUAGE: English

AB - ABSTRACT: A review of historical data for locally and regionally generated tsunamis indicates that 11 events have struck the coast of El Salvador between 1859 and 2002. Two of these tsunamis caused significant death and destruction. Five of the tsunamis were triggered locally, three regionally (from other countries of Central America), and three were triggered by distant earthquakes in the Aleutian, Chilean, and Colombian subduction zones. Nearly 200 fatalities have been caused by local tsunamis. Reported damages range from coastal flooding to the destruction of villages. Earthquakes of magnitude 7 or higher having epicenters offshore or onshore (close to the coastline) could trigger tsunamis that would impact the coastal areas of El Salvador. A preliminary estimation of tsunami hazard indicates that the entire Pacific coast of Central America is at risk from impact by tsunamis. In this paper, we illustrate the potential damage in El Salvador that could be caused by a distant tsunami with a numerical simulation of the 31 January 1906 Colombia tsunami.

DE - DESCRIPTORS: Central-America; Cocos-Plate; earthquakes-; El-Salvador; epicenters-; geologic-hazards; history-; plate-tectonics; simulation-; tsunamis-

CC - CATEGORY CODES: 30-Engineering-geology; 19-Seismology

DT - DOCUMENT TYPE: Serial

BL - BIB LEVEL: Analytic

MC - MAP COORDINATES: LAT: N131000; N142800; LONG: W0873800; W0901000.