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The tsunami sources of the Sanriku Earthquake Tsunami.  

The tsunami sources of the Sanriku Earthquake Tsunami.  

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Figure 1: The bathymetry in computational domain.
Figure 2: Output points of computation.  
Figure 3: The tsunami sources of the Sanriku Earthquake Tsunami.  
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Tsunami disaster assessment in the southwestern Pacific countries due to giant earthquakes near Japan
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  • Jun 2009
The southwestern Pacific Ocean is prone to significant tsunami risk due to giant earthquakes generated near Japan. In this study, two huge tsunamis in the Japan Trench and the Nankai Trough were assumed. They have been called the Sanriku Earthquake Tsunami and the Tonankai-Nankai Earthquake Tsunami. To check the uncertainty of the tsunami model, fo...
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... tsunami sources have been provided by the Japanese government [4,5]. Figure 3 shows a tsunami source of the Sanriku Earthquake Tsunami (model SO). The moment magnitude was 8.6 and it was very big earthquake. ...
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... uncertainty of tsunami model had to be considered. Then, further two more models SN and SS were also assumed ( figure 3). In the two models, the tsunami source of original model (SO) was divided into a northern half and a southern half areas. ...

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