Journal
COASTAL ENGINEERING
Volume 117, Issue -, Pages 79-96Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2016.07.011
Keywords
Cascadia Subduction Zone; Near-field tsunami; Aleatory uncertainty; Resilience Intensity measures; Probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) [70NANB15H044]
- Colorado State University [70NANB15H044]
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The generation, propagation and inundation for a probabilistic near-field tsunami hazards assessment (PTHA) at the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) are analyzed numerically. For the tsunami hazard assessment, a new method is presented to characterize the randomness of the fault slip in terms of the moment magnitude, peak slip location, and a fault slip shape distribution parameterized as a Gaussian distribution. For the tsunami inundation resulting from the seismic event, five tsunami intensity measures (IMs) are estimated: (1) the maximum inundation depth, h(Max), (2) the maximum velocity, V-Max, (3) the maximum momentum flux, M-Max, (4) the initial arrival time exceeding a 1 m inundation depth, T-A, and (5) the duration exceeding a 1 m inundation depth, T-h, and presented in the form of annual exceedance probabilities conditioned on a full-rupture CSZ event. The IMs are generally observed to increase as the moment magnitude increases, as the proximity of the peak slip becomes closer to the study area, and as the distribution of fault shape narrows. Among the IMs, the arrival time (TA) shows a relatively weak sensitivity to the aleatory uncertainty while the other IMs show significant sensitivity, especially Mm.. It is observed at the shoreline that Mm. increases by an order of magnitude from the 500-year to the 1000-year event, while h(max) increases by a factor of 3, and T-A decreases by only factor of 0.05. The intensity of IMs generally decreases inland, but there are also varying dependencies on bathymetry. For example, a shorter inundation duration, T-h (<10 min) is observed at the higher ground level (z >3 m) while a longer T-h (similar to 100 min) is observed near the river and creek. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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