Tsunami modeling from submarine landslides
Tsunami modeling from submarine landslides
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海底滑坡的海啸模型
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2001
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K. Satake
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K. Satake
A simple kinematic landslide model, similar and compatible to the earthquake fault model, is developed to compute tsunami generation from submarine landslides. Changes in bathymetry estimated from detailed swath surveys are used as an initial condition, with prescribed propagating velocity of landslides and rise time at each point. The model is first applied to the 1741 Oshima-Oshima tsunami in the Japan Sea, which caused more than 2000 casualties along the Hokkaido coast and damage as far as the Korean Peninsula. Recent surveys indicate that the sector collapse continues to ocean bottom and the associated volume change is as large as 2.5 km 3 , similar to that of the 1980 Mount St. Helens event. Parameter studies show that the vertical landslide velocity of 10 m/s and the rise time of 2 min best explain the observed tsunami heights. The corresponding horizontal landslide velocity is nearly 100 m/s. The model is also applied to giant submarine landslides around Hawaii. The total volume change for the Nuuanu landslide, north of Oahu, is about 3000 km 3 . Computations for the Nuuanu landslide indicate that tsunami heights are more than 100 m on the northern coasts of the Hawaiian Islands and the trans-Pacific tsunami is strongly directed toward southern California.