Granular porous landslide tsunami modelling – the 2014 Lake Askja flank collapse

Matthias Rauter; Sylvain Viroulet; Sigríður Sif Gylfadóttir; Wolfgang Fellin; Finn Løvholt

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28296-7

Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Granular porous landslide tsunami modelling – the 2014 Lake Askja flank collapse

Matthias Rauter,
Sylvain Viroulet,
Sigríður Sif Gylfadóttir,
Wolfgang Fellin,
Finn Løvholt

Affiliations

Matthias Rauter: Unit of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Innsbruck
Sylvain Viroulet: Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT), Université de Toulouse, CNRS
Sigríður Sif Gylfadóttir: Icelandic Meteorological Office
Wolfgang Fellin: Unit of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Innsbruck
Finn Løvholt: Norwegian Geotechnical Institute

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28296-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Tsunamis are devastating events. They are especially difficult to predict, when generated by landslides. In this paper, the authors overcome this issue by modelling the landslide and the tsunami in a unified framework in unprecedented detail.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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