Field Survey of the Peruvian Tsunami of June 23, 2001

这一行动是为了支助对2001年6月23日秘鲁南部地震所引起的海啸的影响进行实地调查。 调查涉及一个9人小组，在海啸受灾地区总共进行了9天的调查。 其目的是收集一个连贯的数据库的助跑和淹没测量，用于以后的计算机建模工作，旨在解开确切的机制生成的海啸。初步报告表明，海啸的生成和记录远至日本。 当地报告显示有五波这次调查是过去十年在世界各地发生重大海啸后所进行的工作的继续，目的是收集连贯的、这些现代数据集可以成为通过最先进的计算技术对海啸源进行建模的基础。 就过去的海啸而言，对各种海啸源的模拟与调查数据集的比较，提供了对海洋环境中地震期间或紧接其后的洋底动态的基本和偶尔意外的深入了解，这次调查的资料，同以往的调查一样，将通过海啸因特网公告板向全世界分发。

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.