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  • Integrating Volcanic Sources into the Tsunami Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions 

    Von Hillebrandt-Andrade, Christa; Clouard, Valerie; Sostre-Cortés, Jelis; Vanacore, Elizabeth; Aliaga, Bernardo; Angove, Michael; Arcos, Nicolas; Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Dourado, Francisco; Gómez Ramos, Octavio; Joseph, Erouscilla; Kong, Laura; Lynch, Lloyd; McCreery, Charles; McNamara, Daniel; Paris, Raphael; Rodríguez, Lizzette; Watlington, Roy (Sociedad Sismológica Americana (SSA), 2023-04-17)
    One of the goals of the UN Decade Ocean Science Tsunami Programme is that by 2030 actionable notifications are issued for all tsunamis, irrespective of source. In the Caribbean, 14% of all probable and definite historical ...

  • Ocean Decade Project: Integrating Coastal Hazard Early Warning Systems for the Tropical Americas and Caribbean(iCHEWS) 

    Von Hillebrandt-Andrade, Christa; Torres, Jair; Bayouth-Garcia, Desiree; Cabrera, Edgard; Wilson, Doug; Innis, Lorna; Pinardi, Nadia; Brome, Alison; Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Blythe-Mallett, Azra; Nibbs, Farah; Smail, Emily; Aliaga, Bernardo (IUGG, 2023-07-15)
    In June 2021, UNESCO IOC approved the Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme (ODTP) in response to the call to action by the UN Ocean Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030). The ODTP has two overarching ...

  • Tsunami causado por la erupción del volcán Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha’apai: registros en Costa Rica y lecciones aprendidas 

    Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Rivera, Fabio; Murillo Gutiérrez, Anthony (Colegio de geólogos de Costa Rica, 2022-06-29)
    El tsunami causado por la erupción del volcán Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha’apai fue el primer tsunami de origen volcánico registrado en Costa Rica y el número 41 del que se tiene registro. Fue ampliamente observado por muchas ...

  • Tsunamis más grandes de la historia de Costa Rica 

    Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Murillo Gutiérrez, Anthony; Rivera, Fabio (Congreso Nacional de Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres y Adaptación al Cambio Climático, 2022-10-19)
    Aquí mostramos los tsunamis más grandes de la historia de Costa Rica a partir del Catálogo de tsunamis de Costa Rica, en el periodo de 1746-2021. En un país donde existe la creencia generalizada de que nunca hemos ...

  • A first estimation of Tsunami Hazard of the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica from Local and Distant Seismogenic Sources 

    Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Murillo Gutiérrez, Anthony; Rivera, Fabio (IV Assembly of the Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission, LACSC 2022, 2022-10-04)
    Costa Rica has experienced 41 tsunamis since 1746, 36 of them at the Pacific coast and only 5 at the Caribbean coast. However, the oldest record belongs to the Caribbean coast, as well as the only tsunami that has caused ...

  • Numerical modeling of tsunamis originated at Colombia-Ecuador Trench for Costa Rica 

    Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Rivera, Fabio; Murillo Gutiérrez, Anthony (IV Assembly of the Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission, LACSC 2022, 2022-10-04)
    Costa Rica is exposed to tsunamis at both Pacific and Caribbean coasts. Costa Rica has experienced 41 tsunamis since 1746 with moderated impact (Chacón-Barrantes et al., 2021), but the coastal population has increased ...

  • Progress in Preparing a Draft 10-Year Research, Development, and Implementation Plan for Ocean Decade Tsunami Programme (2021-2030) 

    Hayashi, Y; Tummala, S. K.; Angove, Michael; Barrientos, Sergio; Chacón Barrantes, Silvia; Coetze, David; Von Hillebrandt-Andrade, Christa; Rabinovich, Alexander; Rayahu, Harkunti; Schindele, Francois; Yahav, Amir; Aliaga Rossel, Bernardo; Bailey, Rick J.; Chang Seng, Dennis; Haidar, Angelos (2022-10-25)
    In December 2017, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 'United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)' resolution. It aims to significantly advance several research and technology ...

  • Characterizing tsunami signals from the Hunga Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai eruption and its effects on the Caribbean 

    Sostre-Cortés, Jelis; Vanacore, Elizabeth A.; von Hillebrandt-Andrade, Christa; Watlington, Roy A.; Joseph, Erouscilla P.; Dourado, Francisco; Colón Rodríguez, Benjamín; Fontaine, Fabrice J.; Chacón Barrantes, Silvia; Paris, Raphael; Robertson, Richard E.A.; Mercado, Aurelio; Gómez Ramos, Octavio; McNamara, Daniel E.; Soto, Stephanie; Clouard, Valerie; Brome, Alison; Aliaga, Bernardo; Kong, Laura S.L.; Deroussi, Sebastien (American Geophysical Union, 2022-12-13)
    The Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai eruption of January 15 2022, was a rare geological event, resulting in atmospheric pressure waves being recorded around the world. The event caused significant environmental consequences, ...

  • Tsunami Exercises on a Remote Basis: Costa Rican experiences 

    Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Rivera Cerdas, Fabio (Seismological Society of America, 2021-04-21)
    As part of the guidelines to obtain the Tsunami Ready recognition from IOC/ UNESCO, the Pacific communities of Tamarindo and Uvita were required to perform a tsunami exercise. On the 16 March 2020 started in Costa Rica the ...

  • New records of historical tsunamis obtained from Costa Rican newspapers 

    Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Murillo Gutiérrez, Anthony; Rivera Cerdas, Fabio (American Geophysical Union, 2020-12-14)
    Costa Rica has few records of historical tsunamis, due to traditionally low populated coasts and moderate tsunami potential, among other reasons. As part of the writing of the first tsunami catalog of Costa Rica, the authors ...

  • Análisis de Registros de Tsunamis anteriores a 1969 observados en la estación de Puntarenas 

    Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Murillo Gutiérrez, Anthony; Rivera Cerdas, Fabio; Vega Vega, José (IV Congreso Nacional de Gestión del Riesgo y Adaptación al Cambio Climático, Heredia, 10 y 11 de octubre 2018, 2018)
    Los mareógrafos de Puntarenas, Quepos y Limón fueron instalados en la década de 1940 como una colaboración entre el Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN) y la Agencia Nacional Atmosférica y Oceanográfica de los Estados Unidos ...

  • Gestionando el riesgo por tsunami desde las comunidades 

    Rivera Cerdas, Fabio; Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia (IV Congreso Nacional de Gestión del Riesgo y Adaptación al Cambio Climático, Heredia 10 y 11 de octubre 2018, 2018)
    En caso de que la Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias (CNE) declare alerta por tsunami, las personas que se encuentran zonas de riesgo deben evacuar antes de la llegada de la primera ola. ...

  • Tsunami Threat Assessment for the North and Central Pacific Coast of Costa Rica 

    Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia (Seismological Research Letters, 2018)
    A joint international conference of the Seismological Society of America (SSA) and the Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission (LACSC) will be held in Miami, Florida on 14 – 17 May 2018. The conference is the ...

  • Numerical Simulation of Several Tectonic Tsunami Sources at the Caribbean Basin 

    Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Lopez-Venegas, Alberto; Macías, Jorge; Zamora, Natalia; Moore, Christopher; Llorente Isidro, Miguel (2016)
    According to the NGDC/WDS Global Historical Tsunami Database, the Caribbean Sea has experienced more than 100 historical tsunamis. The most recent tsunami observed in this basin was caused by the 2010 Haity Mw 7.0 earthquake ...

  • Modeling the Tsunami Potential along the Pacific Coast of Central America 

    Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia (2018)
    Along the Pacific of Central America the Cocos plate subducts beneath the Caribbean plate, at the Middle America Trench (MAT). There are no records of mega earthquakes originated there; probably associated to the low ...

  • Caribbean and Adjacent Regions Tsunami Sources and Models (CATSAM) Map Viewer 

    Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Arcos, Nicolas; VARNER, JESSE; López, Alberto M. (2018)
    Since 2011, UNESCO - Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Experts Meetings and CaribeWave exercises have resulted in a variety of tsunami models of credible scenarios that would impact the Caribbean and adjacent ...

  • Tsunamis from Tectonic Sources along Caribbean Plate Boundaries 

    Lopez-Venegas, Alberto; Chacon-Barrantes, Silvia; Zamora, Natalia; Audermard, Franck; Dondin, Frederic; Clouard, Valerie; Lovholt, Finn; Harbitz, Carl Bonnevie; Vanacore, Elizabeth; Huérfano, Victo (2015)
    The Caribbean region, home to more than 100 million people, has seen for the last 500 years at Least 75 documented tsunamis (von Hillebrandt-Andrade, 2013). It has been estimated that more than 4500 people have perished ...