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In situ Measurements of Tide Gauge Response and Corrections of Tsunami Waveforms from the Niigataken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake in 2007

Yuichi Namegaya, Yuichiro Tanioka, Kuniaki Abe, Kenji Satake, more

Pure and Applied Geophysics > 2009 > 166 > 1-2 > 97-116

Linear and nonlinear responses of ten well-type tide gauge stations on the Japan Sea coast of central Japan were estimated by in situ measurements. We poured water into the well or drained water from the well by using a pump to make an artificial water level difference between the outer sea and the well, then measured the recovery of water level in the well. At three tide gauge stations, Awashima,...

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Introduction to “Tsunami Science Four Years After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Part II: Observation and Data Analysis”

Phil R. Cummins, Laura S. L. Kong, Kenji Satake

Pure and Applied Geophysics > 2009 > 166 > 1-2 > 1-7

In this introduction we briefly summarize the fourteen contributions to Part II of this special issue on Tsunami Science Four Years After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. These papers are representative of the new tsunami science being conducted since the occurrence of that tragic event. Most of these were presented at the session: Tsunami Generation and Hazard, of the International Union of Geodesy...

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Numerical Study of Tsunami Generated by Multiple Submarine Slope Failures in Resurrection Bay, Alaska, during the M _W 9.2 1964 Earthquake

Elena Suleimani, Roger Hansen, Peter J. Haeussler

Pure and Applied Geophysics > 2009 > 166 > 1-2 > 131-152

We use a viscous slide model of Jiang and LeBlond (1994) coupled with nonlinear shallow water equations to study tsunami waves in Resurrection Bay, in south-central Alaska. The town of Seward, located at the head of Resurrection Bay, was hit hard by both tectonic and local landslide-generated tsunami waves during the M _W 9.2 1964 earthquake with an epicenter located about 150 km northeast of Seward...

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The 1856 Tsunami of Djidjelli (Eastern Algeria): Seismotectonics, Modelling and Hazard Implications for the Algerian Coast

AbdelKarim Yelles-Chaouche, Jean Roger, Jacques Déverchère, Rabah Bracène, more

Pure and Applied Geophysics > 2009 > 166 > 1-2 > 283-300

On August 21st and 22nd 1856, two strong earthquakes occurred off the seaport of Djidjelli, a small city of 1000 inhabitants, located 300 km east of Algiers (capital of Algeria). In relation to these two earthquakes, an important tsunami (at least one) affected the western Mediterranean region and the eastern Algerian coastline between Algiers and La Calle (Algero-Tunisian border). Based on historical...

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Lituya Bay Landslide Impact Generated Mega-Tsunami 50^th Anniversary

Hermann M. Fritz, Fahad Mohammed, Jeseon Yoo

Pure and Applied Geophysics > 2009 > 166 > 1-2 > 153-175

On July 10, 1958, an earthquake M_w 8.3 along the Fairweather fault triggered a major subaerial landslide into Gilbert Inlet at the head of Lituya Bay on the southern coast of Alaska. The landslide impacted the water at high speed generating a giant tsunami and the highest wave runup in recorded history. The mega-tsunami runup to an elevation of 524 m caused total forest destruction and erosion down...

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Reconstruction of Tsunami Inland Propagation on December 26, 2004 in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, through Field Investigations

Franck Lavigne, Raphaël Paris, Delphine Grancher, Patrick Wassmer, more

Pure and Applied Geophysics > 2009 > 166 > 1-2 > 259-281

This paper presents the results from an extensive field data collection effort following the December 26, 2004 earthquake and tsunami in Banda Aceh, Sumatra. The data were collected under the auspices of TSUNARISQUE, a joint French-Indonesian program dedicated to tsunami research and hazard mitigation, which has been active since before the 2004 event. In total, data from three months of field investigations...

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Field Survey and Geological Effects of the 15 November 2006 Kuril Tsunami in the Middle Kuril Islands

Breanyn T. MacInnes, Tatiana K. Pinegina, Joanne Bourgeois, Nadezhda G. Razhigaeva, more

Pure and Applied Geophysics > 2009 > 166 > 1-2 > 9-36

The near-field expression of the tsunami produced by the 15 November 2006 Kuril earthquake (M_w 8.1–8.4) in the middle Kuril Islands, Russia, including runup of up to 20 m, remained unknown until we conducted a post-tsunami survey in the summer of 2007. Because the earthquake occurred between summer field expeditions in 2006 and 2007, we have observations, topographic profiles, and photographs from...

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Tide Gauge Observations of 2004–2007 Indian Ocean Tsunamis from Sri Lanka and Western Australia

Charitha B. Pattiaratchi, E. M. Sarath Wijeratne

Pure and Applied Geophysics > 2009 > 166 > 1-2 > 233-258

Tide gauge data collected from Sri Lanka (three stations) and Western Australia (eleven stations) during the Indian Ocean tsunamis, which occurred in December 2004, March 2005, July 2006, and September 2007, and incorporated five tsunamis, were examined to determine tsunami behaviour during these events. During the December 2004 tsunami, maximum wave heights of 3.87 m and 1.75 m were recorded at Colombo...

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The November 15, 2006 Kuril Islands-Generated Tsunami in Crescent City, California

L. Dengler, B. Uslu, A. Barberopoulou, S. C. Yim, more

Pure and Applied Geophysics > 2009 > 166 > 1-2 > 37-53

On November 15, 2006, Crescent City in Del Norte County, California was hit by a tsunami generated by a M _w 8.3 earthquake in the central Kuril Islands. Strong currents that persisted over an eight-hour period damaged floating docks and several boats and caused an estimated $9.2 million in losses. Initial tsunami alert bulletins issued by the West Coast Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (WCATWC) in...

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Analysis of Observed and Predicted Tsunami Travel Times for the Pacific and Indian Oceans

Paul Wessel

Pure and Applied Geophysics > 2009 > 166 > 1-2 > 301-324

I have examined over 1500 historical tsunami travel-time records for 127 tsunamigenic earthquakes that occurred in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. After subjecting the observations to simple tests to rule out gross errors I compare the remaining reports to simple travel-time predictions using Huygens method and the long-wave approximation, thus simulating the calculations that typically take place...

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Tsunamis on the Pacific Coast of Canada Recorded in 1994–2007

Frederick E. Stephenson, Alexander B. Rabinovich

Pure and Applied Geophysics > 2009 > 166 > 1-2 > 177-210

In the last 15 years there have been 16 tsunami events recorded at tide stations on the Pacific Coast of Canada. Eleven of these events were from distant sources covering almost all regions of the Pacific, as well as the December 26, 2004 Sumatra tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Three tsunamis were generated by local or regional earthquakes and two were meteorological tsunamis. The earliest four events,...

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Excitation of Resonant Modes along the Japanese Coast by the 1993 and 1983 Tsunamis in the Japan Sea

Kuniaki Abe

Pure and Applied Geophysics > 2009 > 166 > 1-2 > 117-130

We observed seiches at 55 ports in Japan facing the Japan Sea and obtained dominant periods from their maximum spectral amplitudes. These periods were mostly determined ranging from 10 to 40 minutes. They were compared with dominant periods of the 1993 Hokkaido Nansei-oki tsunami and the 1983 Nihonkai Chubu-oki tsunami at the same ports. As a result, relations of dominant periods between seiches and...

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Variable Tsunami Sources and Seismic Gaps in the Southernmost Kuril Trench: A Review

Kenji Hirata, Kenji Satake, Yuichiro Tanioka, Yohei Hasegawa

Pure and Applied Geophysics > 2009 > 166 > 1-2 > 77-96

In the southernmost Kuril Trench, the tsunami source regions vary their along-trench extent even among earthquakes occurring within the same segment. Recent studies suggest that the tsunami source of the 1952 Tokachi-oki earthquake (M 8.1) differs from but partially overlaps with that of the 2003 Tokach-oki earthquake (M 8.0). Furthermore, the along-trench extent among the earthquakes seems to differ...

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Validation and Joint Inversion of Teleseismic Waveforms for Earthquake Source Models Using Deep Ocean Bottom Pressure Records: A Case Study of the 2006 Kuril Megathrust Earthquake

Toshitaka Baba, Phil R. Cummins, Hong Kie Thio, Hiroaki Tsushima

Pure and Applied Geophysics > 2009 > 166 > 1-2 > 55-76

The importance of accurate tsunami simulation has increased since the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and the Indian Ocean tsunami that followed it, because it is an important tool for inundation mapping and, potentially, tsunami warning. An important source of uncertainty in tsunami simulations is the source model, which is often estimated from some combination of seismic, geodetic or geological...

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The 15 August 2007 Peru Earthquake and Tsunami: Influence of the Source Characteristics on the Tsunami Heights

Hélène Hébert, Dominique Reymond, Yann Krien, Julien Vergoz, more

Pure and Applied Geophysics > 2009 > 166 > 1-2 > 211-232

The tsunami caused by the 2007 Peru earthquake (M_w 8.0) provoked less damage than by the seismic shaking itself (numerous casualties due to the earthquake in the vicinity of Pisco). However, it propagated across the Pacific Ocean and small waves were observed on one tide gauge in Taiohae Bay (Nuku Hiva, Marquesas, French Polynesia). We invert seismological data to recover the rupture pattern in two...

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TSUNAMI (9)
RUNUP (3)
TIDE GAUGE (3)
LANDSLIDE GENERATED TSUNAMI (2)
NUMERICAL MODELING (2)
SEICHE (2)
TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM (2)
WAVEFORM INVERSION (2)
IN SITU MEASUREMENT (1)
1856 TSUNAMI (1)
1964 ALASKA EARTHQUAKE (1)
2006 KURIL ISLANDS EARTHQUAKE (1)
ALASKA (1)
ALGERIA (1)
BATHYMETRY (1)
BODY-WAVE INVERSION (1)
BRITISH COLUMBIA (1)
BUILDING DAMAGE (1)
COASTAL DAMAGE (1)
COASTAL GEOMORPHOLOGY (1)
CORRECTED TSUNAMI WAVEFORM (1)
CRESCENT CITY (1)
DART INVERSION (1)
DJIDJELLI (1)
EARTHQUAKE (1)
FAULTS (1)
FRENCH POLYNESIA (1)
HARBOR RESONANCE (1)
HAZARD MITIGATION (1)
INTENSITY SCALE (1)
INUNDATION (1)
JAPAN SEA (1)
KURIL ISLANDS (1)
KURIL SUBDUCTION ZONE (1)
KURIL TRENCH (1)
LANDSLIDE (1)
LANDSLIDE-GENERATED TSUNAMIS (1)
METEOROLOGICAL TSUNAMI (1)
MOMENT TENSOR INVERSION (1)
NATURAL HAZARD (1)
NEAR-FIELD WAVE CHARACTERISTICS (1)
NEMURO-OKI (1)
NONLINEAR GRAVITY WATER WAVES (1)
PACIFIC OCEAN (1)
POST-TSUNAMI SURVEY (1)
RESONANT MODE (1)
RESURRECTION BAY (1)
SEA LEVEL (1)
SEICHES (1)
SEISMOLOGICAL SOURCE (1)
SEWARD (1)
SLIDE ENERGY CONVERSION (1)
SRI LANKA (1)
STATISTICS (1)
THE NIIGATAKEN CHUETSU-OKI EARTHQUAKE IN 2007 (1)
THREE-PHASE FLOW (1)
TIDE GAUGE RESPONSE (1)
TOKACHI-OKI (1)
TSUNAMI BORE (1)
TSUNAMI CATALOGUE (1)
TSUNAMI DEPOSIT (1)
TSUNAMI EROSION (1)
TSUNAMI NUMERICAL MODELING (1)
TSUNAMI RECORDS (1)
TSUNAMI TRAVEL-TIME PREDICTION (1)
WAVE MODELLING (1)
WAVE REFLECTION (1)
WAVE RUNUP (1)
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