The earthquake and tsunami of November 21, 2004 at Les Saintes, Guadeloupe, lesser Antilles

Narcisse Zahibo (1) , Efim Pelinovsky (2, 3) , Emile Okal (4) , Ahmet Yalçiner (5) , Christian Kharif (3) , Tatiana Talipova (2) , Andrey Kozelkov (6)

1 LPAT - Laboratoire de Physique de l'Atmosphère Tropicale
2 LHNA - Laboratory of Hydrophysics and Nonlinear Acoustics
3 IRPHE - Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre
4 Departement of Geological Sciences [Evanston]
5 Department of Civil Engineering, Ocean Engineering Research Center
6 Applied Mathematics Departement

A strong earthquake (mb = 6.3; Ms = 6.1; Mw = 6.3) occurred on 21 November 2004 in the Dominica Passage separating Guadeloupe and Dominica, in the Lesser Antilles, and generated a weak tsunami with maximum amplitudes of +70 and -80 cm on neighbouring islands. We conducted field surveys on the islands of “Les Saintes”, in the immediate vicinity of the epicenter on November 27, 2004 and February 12, 2005, and report here on the resulting dataset.

Domaines: Physique Atmosphérique et Océanique [physics.ao-ph]

Narcisse Zahibo, Efim Pelinovsky, Emile Okal, Ahmet Yalçiner, Christian Kharif, et al.. The earthquake and tsunami of November 21, 2004 at Les Saintes, Guadeloupe, lesser Antilles. Science of Tsunami Hazards, 2005, 23, n° 1, pp.25-39. ⟨hal-00095039⟩