Reliability of first-hand accounts on the study of historical tsunamis in northeastern Venezuela (southeastern Caribbean Sea)
Reliability of first-hand accounts on the study of historical tsunamis in northeastern Venezuela (southeastern Caribbean Sea) Franck A. Audemard M. 1 and Alejandra Leal Guzmán 2 1 Earth Sciences Dpt-FUNVISIS 2 Seismology Dept.-FUNVISIS Publicado en: Annals of Geophysics , 60 (6): S0660-S0660. Abstract The occurrence of tsunami waves on the eastern Caribbean Venezuelan coasts during 5 Venezuelan (local) earthquakes (01-IX-1530, 15-VII- 1853, 29-X-1900, 17-I-1929 and 9-VII-1997), have been confirmed through the search and evaluation of written accounts by primary sources (eye witnesses) of tsunami inundation during these events. Among the outcomes of this new assessment are: 1) the run-up heights of several of those tsunamis have been substantially reduced. In fact, maximum run-up heights for the 5 tsunamis are: 5-7 m at Cumaná for the 1530 event, 5 m at Barlovento and 3 m at the Neverí mouth for the 1900 tsunami, 3 m at western Cumaná for the 1853 ...