Tsunami Generation and Hazards Along the Caribbean Coast of Honduras
   

 
An Annotated Bibliography by Kip Hodges
 
27 August 2005
   
 

Corbett, P. (2005, January 24) Tsunami in Honduras: How Prepared Are We? Honduras This Week, on-line edition. Retrieved August 27, 2005, from http://www.marrder.com/ htw/2005jan/editorial.htm

This reference is a brief editorial outlining the general risk and lack of an effective tsunami warning system for the coastal regions of Honduras.
 

 

Fernandez, M., Molina, E., Havskov, J., & Atakan, K. (2000). Tsunamis and tsunami hazards in Central America. Natural Hazards, 22, 91-116.

Fernandez and colleagues have presented a succinct review of the locations and consequences of 49 tsunamis  in Central America over the period 1539-1996. They concluded that virtually all "great" earthquakes (Magnitiude 7.0 and greater) along the North American-Caribbean plate boundary generate tsunamis. One of the greatest hazards in the Caribbean basin occurs in the  Gulf of Honduras.

 

 

McCann, W. R. (2004). Estimating the threat of tsunamigenic earthquakes and earthquake induced-landslide tsunami in the Caribbean. Retrieved August 27, 2005, from http://www.crid.or.cr/ digitalizacion/pdf/eng/doc15715/doc15715.htm

A privately published report by the former Director of the Seismic Research Institute at the University of Puerto Rico, this paper provides an excellent overview of the tectonics and tsunami potential for the Caribbean basin, including the north coast of Honduras. Available for download from the web site of CRID, the Regional Disaster Information Center, Latin America and the Caribbean.

 

 

Tsunami Recorded in the Gulf of Honduras, Caribbean Sea (1976). Newsletter of the International Tsunami Information Center 9, 9.

In this very brief news item, it was reported that the 4 February 1976 Guatemalan earthquake led to the generation of a 24 cm tsunami that struck the north coast of Honduras.