Field Survey of the Peruvian Tsunami of June 23, 2001

这一行动是为了支持对2001年6月23日秘鲁南部地震造成的海啸的影响进行实地调查。这次调查包括一个9人小组，在海啸影响的地区总共进行了9天的调查。其目的是收集一个连贯的抬高和淹没测量数据，以便在以后的计算机模拟工作中使用，目的是解开这场海啸的确切产生机制。初步报告表明，一场海啸发生并记录在遥远的日本。在当地，报告指出，一系列五次海浪(周期约为半小时)摧毁了已建成的建筑物，淹没了卡马纳地区内陆长达1.5至2公里的地方。这项调查是过去十年来在世界各地发生重大海啸后开展的工作的继续，目的是收集连贯的、定量的现代数据集，然后成为通过最先进的计算技术对海啸来源进行建模的基础。对于过去的海啸，对各种海啸来源的模拟与调查数据集之间的比较，提供了对海洋环境中地震期间或紧随其后的海底动态的基本且偶尔出人意料的洞察。与以前的调查一样，这次调查的信息将通过海啸互联网公告板在世界各地传播。

This action is to support a field survey of the effects of the tsunami generated by the Southern Peru earthquake of 23 June 2001. The survey involves a 9-person team for a total of nine days in the area impacted by the tsunami. The objective is to gather a coherent database of runup and inundation measurements, to be used later in computer modeling efforts aimed at unraveling the exact mechanism of generation of this tsunami.Preliminary reports indicate that a tsunami was generated and recorded as far away as Japan. Locally, reports indicate a series of five waves (with periods on the order of half-an-hour) destroying built-up structures and inundating as far as 1.5 to 2 km inland in the area of Camana.This survey represents a continuation of the work carried out for the past decade in the aftermath of significant tsunamis worldwide, in order to gather coherent, quantitative sets of modern data which can then become the basis for modeling the source of the tsunami through state-of-the-art computational techniques. For past tsunamis, the comparison between simulations for a variety of sources of the tsunami and the surveyed dataset has provided fundamental and occasionally unexpected insight into the dynamics of the ocean floor during, or immediately following, an earthquake in the marine environment.The information from this survey, as with previous surveys, will be distributed worldwide via the tsunami Internet bulletin board.