Project Title: Evaluating Tsunami Hazards to the Atlantic and
Caribbean Coasts Mendenhall Fellow: Alberto Lopez-Venegas,
email@example.com Duty Station: Woods Hole, MA Start Date:
October 1, 2006 Education: Ph.D. 2006, Northwestern University,
Geophysics Research Advisors: Uri ten Brink, (508) 457-2396,
firstname.lastname@example.org; Eric Geist, (650) 329-5457,
email@example.com; Homa Lee, (650) 329-5485,
firstname.lastname@example.org Project Description: Tsunamis,
resulting from either tectonic events or subaerial/submarine
landslides, have been historically recorded in the Caribbean
region since the 16th century (Lander and others, 2002). At
least 91 reported tsunamis have occurred in the Caribbean basin
since colonization by Europeans, and of these events, at least
27 have been well documented. In 1918, an earthquake occurring
on the western wall of the Mona Canyon (M 7.5) between
Hispaniola and Puerto Rico (Mercado and McCann, 1998) generated
a tsunami that reached the western coast of Puerto Rico and c