Multibeam bathymetry mapping to identify earthquake and tsunami sources.
Location
Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic, northeast Caribbean, North Atlantic,
Summary
53,300 sq. km of multibeam bathymetry were collected south of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Dominican republic, in the Mona rift area, in the 1946 tsunami area and south of the Puerto Rico trench. 11 XBT dropped.
Comments
Original Center People field contained: Uri ten Brink (chief Scientist), Bill Danforth (data processing expert), Brian Andrews (GIS expert), Wayne Baldwin (data processing expert), Chris Polloni (archiving).
Jose-Luis Granja (student, U. of Madrid); Maria Gomez (data processing technician, Spanish Institute of Oceanography); Misty Watson (Observer, NOAA-PMEL)
Multibeam data have been processed using CARIS HIPS by Bill Danforth and Brian Andrews who were on the survey. They are stored in CARIS HIPS ver 7.1 format on Brian's Computer and on Teramac
