Journal
IZVESTIYA ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC PHYSICS
Volume 50, Issue 5, Pages 435-444Publisher
MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1134/S0001433814050041
Keywords
tsunami; tsunami risk; tsunami hazard; tsunami zoning; earthquake recurrence; natural hazards
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [12-07-00406, 12-05-00894, 12-05-92697]
- Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences [37, 117]
- Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, program [23.3-2]
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We consider the problems of assessing tsunami danger for sea coasts taking into account the risk of the strongest tsunamis of seismic origin. We identify a class of particularly dangerous transoceanic events characterized by extremely high runups (up to 40-50 m) at extended coastal areas (up to 500-1000 km). In most cases these transoceanic tsunamis are caused by underwater mega-earthquakes with a magnitude of 9.0 or more occurring with a period between 200-300 and 1000-1200 years in some areas of subduction zones. The possibility of these earthquakes in subduction zones directly threatening a given coast should be taken into account in creating maps of tsunami zoning of any scale.
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