March 28, 1964 Gulf of Alaska Tsunami - References

Berg, E., D.C. Cox, A.S. Furumoto, K. Kajiura, H. Kawasumi, and E. Shima (1970). Field survey of the tsunamis of 28 March 1964 in Alaska, and conclusions as to the origin of the major tsunami, Hawaii Inst. of Geophysics; HIG-70-2, U. of Hawaii, 49 pp.

Christensen D.H. and S.L. Beck (1994). The rupture process and tectonic implications of the great 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake, Pageoph 142, 29-53.

Cox D.C. and G. Pararas-Carayannis (1976). Catalog of tsunamis in Alaska revised 1976, World Data Center A, NOAA, Boulder, CO, Report SE-1, 43 pp.

Grantz, A., G. Plafker, and R. Kachadoorian (1964). Alaska's Good Friday earthquake, March 27, 1964 A preliminary geologic evaluation, Geological Survey Circular 491, U.S. Dept. of Interior, USGS, 35 pp.

Griffin, J., S. Gibson, and D. Swarthout (1996), Alaska Earthquake 1964 - Where were you?, Wizard Works, Homer, Alaska, 271 pp.

Griffin, W. (1984), Crescent City's Dark Disaster, Crescent City Printing Co., Crescent City, CA, 188 pp.

Hastie, L.M. and J.C. Savage (1970). A dislocation model for the 1964 Alaska earthquake, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 60, 1389-1392.

Hatori, T. (1965). On the Alaska tsunami of March 28, 1964, as observed along the coast of Japan, Bull. Earthquake Res. Inst. 43, 399-408.

Holdahl, S.R. and J. Sauber (1994). Coseismic slip in the 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake: A new geodetic inversion, Pageoph 142, 55-82.

Iida, K., D.C. Cox, and G. Pararas-Carayannis (1967). Preliminary catalog of tsunamis occurring in the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii Inst. of Geophys., HIG-67-10, University of Hawaii, 131 pp.

Johnson, J.M., K. Satake, and S.R. Holdahl (1996). The 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake: Joint inversion of tsunami and geodetic data, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 523-532.

Kanamori, H. (1970). The Alaska earthquake of 1964: Radiation of long-period surface waves and source mechanism, J. Geophys Res. 75, 5029-5040.

Kanamori, H. (1977). The energy release in great earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res. 82, 2981-2987.

Lander, J.F. (1996). Tsunamis Affecting Alaska 1737-1996, NGDC Key to Geophysical Record Documentation No. 31, NOAA, NESDIS, NGDC, 195 pp.

Lander, J.F., P.A. Lockridge, and M.J. Kozuch (1993). Tsunamis Affecting the West Coast of the United States 1806-1992, NGDC Key to Geophysical Record Documentation No. 29, NOAA, NESDIS, NGDC, 242 pp.

Murphy, C.T. (1964). Report of tidal wave emergency Grays Harbor County, unpublished, 10 pp.

National Academy of Sciences (1973). The Great Alaska earthquake of 1964, In Eight Volumes, Committee on the Alaska earthquake of the Div. of Earth Sciences National Research Council, National Acad. of Sciences, Washington, D.C. 291 pp.

National Earthquake Information Center Earthquake Data Base (2000). NEIC Earthquake Search

Plafker, G. (1972). Alaska earthquake of 1964 and Chilean Earthquake of 1960: Implications for arc tectonics, J. Geophys Res. 77, 901-925.

Ruff, L. and H. Kanamori (1983). The rupture process and asperity distribution of three great earthquakes from long-period diffracted P-waves, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors 31, 202-230.

Spaeth, M.G. and S.C. Berkman (1967). The tsunami of March 28, 1964, as recroded at tide stations, ESSA Technical Report C&GS 33, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, ESSA, C&GS, 86 pp.

U.S. Geological Survey (1966-70), The Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964 Series, Geological Survey Professional Papers 542, 543, 544, 545, and 546, U.S. Dept. of Interior, USGS.

Wood, F.J. ed. (1966). The Prince William Sound, Alaska, earthquake of 1964 and aftershocks, In Three Volumes, C&GS Publication 10-3, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, ESSA, C&GS, 263 pp.

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