New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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Response of Wellington Harbour to the tsunamis of 1960 and 1964

A. E. GILMOUR

New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Division of Water Sciences Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Private Bag, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract Spectral analyses of water-level oscillations in Wellington Harbour during the 1960 Chilean and 1964 Alaskan tsunamis are given. Hie results are used to define the periods for the three longest-period characteristic oscillation modes. Some implications for future tsunamis are discussed.

Keywords Wellington; tsunami; oscillation modes

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Researc a, 1990, Vol. 24:229-231 Crown copyright 19 >0
Received 24 October 1989; accepted 7 March 1990

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