Tsunami runup mapping as an emergency preparedness planning tool : the 1929 tsunami in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Canada : Emergency Preparedness Canada, 1996Description: v, 107 p. : ill., mapsISBN:

0662258592 (pbk)

DDC classification:

21
551.47024

Subject: A tsunami struck the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland in the early evening of November 18, 1929 after the 1702 NST magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurred in the Laurentian Slope Seismic Zone. This event is Canada's most tragic earthquake with twenty-eight lives lost. The tsunami swept into the coast of Newfoundland two-and-a-half hours after the seiemic event near the top of a high spring tide. Water levels first fell far below normal then, in three successive waves, that often arrived on shore as breaking waves, water levels rose two to seven metres. At the heads of several of the long narrow bays on the Burin Peninsula the momentum of the tsunami carried water as high as 27 m. St Lawrence at the head of Great St. Lawrence harbour was one of the communities inundated, fortunately with no loss of life, but with substantial property damage

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Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	F551.47024 TSU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900060667

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A tsunami struck the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland in the early evening of November 18, 1929 after the 1702 NST magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurred in the Laurentian Slope Seismic Zone. This event is Canada's most tragic earthquake with twenty-eight lives lost. The tsunami swept into the coast of Newfoundland two-and-a-half hours after the seiemic event near the top of a high spring tide. Water levels first fell far below normal then, in three successive waves, that often arrived on shore as breaking waves, water levels rose two to seven metres. At the heads of several of the long narrow bays on the Burin Peninsula the momentum of the tsunami carried water as high as 27 m. St Lawrence at the head of Great St. Lawrence harbour was one of the communities inundated, fortunately with no loss of life, but with substantial property damage

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