Patricio A. Catalán

TL;DR: On 27 February 2010, a magnitude Mw = 88 earthquake occurred off the coast of Chile's Maule region causing substantial damage and loss of life Ancestral tsunami knowledge from the 1960 event combined with education and evacuation exercises prompted most coastal residents to spontaneously evacuate after the earthquake Many of the tsunami victims were tourists in coastal campgrounds.

TL;DR: In this paper, a data-model assimilation method (called "Beach Wizard") is presented with which the nearshore subtidal bathymetry can be accurately estimated based on video-derived observations of wave roller dissipation and variation of the intertidal shoreline, and/or radar-derived observation of wave celerity.

TL;DR: In this article, Silva et al. present and future challenges of coastal erosion in Latin America, including sedimentary cliffs, deeply incised estuaries, headlands, barrier coasts and low lying, muddy coastal plains.

TL;DR: In this article, a number of existing models for surface wave phase speeds (linear and nonlinear, breaking and non-breaking waves) are reviewed and tested against phase speed data from a large-scale laboratory experiment.

TL;DR: In this article, three tsunami survey teams covered approximately 700 km of the Pacific coast, recording 83 tsunami flow depth and runup measurements, and the maximum runup was found to be 10.8 m at only one small bay, in front of the inferred tsunami source area.