Abstract
Publicity waves based on manipulated geoscientific data suggesting climatic trigger for majority of tsunami findings in the Mediterranean – Response to 'Tsunamis in the geological record: Making waves with a cautionary tale from the Mediterranean' by Marriner et al. (2017)
Highlights
This article is a response to the publication by Nick Marriner, David Kaniewski, Christophe Morhange, Clément Flaux, Matthieu Giaime, Matteo Vacchi and James Goff entitled “Tsunamis in the geological record: Making waves with a cautionary tale from the Medi terranean”, published in October 2017.In their efforts to contribute to the scientific discussion on how one may generally discriminate between storm and tsunami deposits, these authors focus on the Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean was widely accepted amongst geoscientists to be one of the most active seismo-tectonic regions worldwide bearing a dense record of past earthquakes and tsunami events that caused a high number of fatalities and considerable damage to infrastructure since humankind has settled along its coasts
We found that other tsunami events that occurred in the Mediterranean during the period 1900 – 2016, mostly associated with seismic events, are assigned by EM-DAT to the 4th order category ‘ground movement’
Summary
This article is a response to the publication by Nick Marriner, David Kaniewski, Christophe Morhange, Clément Flaux, Matthieu Giaime, Matteo Vacchi and James Goff entitled “Tsunamis in the geological record: Making waves with a cautionary tale from the Medi terranean”, published in October 2017 In their efforts to contribute to the scientific discussion on how one may generally discriminate between storm and tsunami deposits, these authors focus on the Mediterranean Sea. Until recently, the Mediterranean was widely accepted amongst geoscientists to be one of the most active seismo-tectonic regions worldwide bearing a dense record of past earthquakes and tsunami events that caused a high number of fatalities and considerable damage to infrastructure since humankind has settled along its coasts. The Mediterranean remains one of the most active seismotectonic regions worldwide where tsunamis are much deadlier and more costly than any stormrelated influences
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