Frequency dispersion amplifies tsunamis caused by outer-rise normal faults.


Journal

Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
08 10 2021
Historique:
received: 12 05 2021
accepted: 28 09 2021
entrez: 9 10 2021
pubmed: 10 10 2021
medline: 10 10 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Although tsunamis are dispersive water waves, hazard maps for earthquake-generated tsunamis neglect dispersive effects because the spatial dimensions of tsunamis are much greater than the water depth, and dispersive effects are generally small. Furthermore, calculations that include non-dispersive effects tend to predict higher tsunamis than ones that include dispersive effects. Although non-dispersive models may overestimate the tsunami height, this conservative approach is acceptable in disaster management, where the goal is to save lives and protect property. However, we demonstrate that offshore frequency dispersion amplifies tsunamis caused by outer-rise earthquakes, which displace the ocean bottom downward in a narrow area, generating a dispersive short-wavelength and pulling-dominant (water withdrawn) tsunami. We compared observational evidence and calculations of tsunami for a 1933 M

Identifiants

pubmed: 34625626
doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-99536-x
pii: 10.1038/s41598-021-99536-x
pmc: PMC8501110
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

20064

Informations de copyright

© 2021. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Toshitaka Baba (T)

Graduate School of Technology, Industrial and Social Sciences, Tokushima University, 2-1 Minami-jyosanjima-cho, Tokushima, 770-8506, Japan. baba.toshi@tokushima-u.ac.jp.

Naotaka Chikasada (N)

National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Ibaraki, Japan.

Kentaro Imai (K)

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan.

Yuichiro Tanioka (Y)

Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

Shuichi Kodaira (S)

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan.

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