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Brian F. Atwater

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43

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Active since

1976

Affiliations

United States Geological Survey(Current)

University of Washington

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Geological Survey of Japan

Earth and Space Research

Brian F. Atwater is an author at United States Geological Survey specializing in engineering, earth science, and geography.

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EngineeringEarth ScienceGeographyGeologyTectonicsSeismologySedimentologyGeomorphologyGeophysicsMarine Geology

Publications per year

1976–2017

43

Publications

43

Evidence for Great Holocene Earthquakes Along the Outer Coast of Washington State

Brian F. Atwater · Science · 1987 · 678 citations

Engineering, Geomorphology, Earthquake Hazards +19

Predecessors of the giant 1960 Chile earthquake

Marco Cisternas, Brian F. Atwater, Fernando Torrejón et al. · Nature · 2005 · 534 citations · Full text

Chile Earthquake, Engineering, Seismology +4

Unusually large earthquakes inferred from tsunami deposits along the Kuril trench

Futoshi Nanayama, Kenji Satake, Ryuta Furukawa et al. · Nature · 2003 · 490 citations

Geophysics, Kuril Trench, Tsunami Science +12

Medieval forewarning of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Thailand

Kruawun Jankaew, Brian F. Atwater, Yuki Sawai et al. · Nature · 2008 · 383 citations

Tsunami Science, Engineering, East Asian Studies +3

Fault slip and seismic moment of the 1700 Cascadia earthquake inferred from Japanese tsunami descriptions

Kenji Satake, Kelin Wang, Brian F. Atwater · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2003 · 337 citations

Engineering, Seismic Wave, Japanese Tsunami Descriptions +19

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