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Submarine canyons have been identified on nearly all margins around the world (Urlaub et al., 2013). Their configuration and morphology has been attributed to several factors including geology, tectonism, sea-level variations, and sediment supply to the region (Laursen and Normark, 2002) with processes occurring over varying temporal and spatial scales driving complex morphologies (Drexler, et al., 2006). A common process in submarine canyons is the mass wasting of sediment in the form of submarine landslides (SMLS) (Brothers, et al., 2013). A SMLS is a displacement of sediment or debris driven by gravity where the downslope forces are greater than the forces that are acting to resist the mass-failures (Mountjoy and Micallef, 2018). The potential tsunami hazard posed by these SMLS was assessed by Buller et al. (2021) using empirical calculations which showed that these SMLSs posed a tsunami threat to the adjacent coastline with calculated wave amplitudes ranging from 2.13 – 15.90 m. However, the tsunami risk assessed in their study was a conservative initial assessment and did not consider how local bathymetry influenced tsunami propagation.References
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