Author(s): Octavio A. Rascón; Augusto G. Villarreal

Linked Author(s):

Keywords:

Abstract: For the design of a coastal protection where the Lazaro Cardenas-Las Truchas steel factory is being built, a statistical study was carried out on the tsunamies that have reached the Mexican Pacific coast in order to evaluate probabilities of exceedance of the maximum wave height during tsunamies. The study was done using Bayesian estimation. Results obtained were the relation between the maximum height and the mean exceedance frequency of the waves for this coast, and the probability distributions of the maximum wave height for any randomly selected site and for Las Truchas, corresponding to any period of time.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00221687509499695

Year: 1975