RAPID - Collaborative Research - Offshore impacts of the Tohoku-Oki earthquake on seafloor deformation, sedimentation, erosion, tsunamigenesis

大规模逆冲地震及其产生的海啸是对世界各地人口密集的海岸线的最大威胁，如智利、苏门答腊、阿拉斯加和卡斯卡迪亚（从不列颠哥伦比亚省南部延伸到北方加州的地区）。2011年3月11日日本北方近海东北冲大地震造成的破坏突出表明了灾难性后果的风险以及迫切需要更好地了解这些事件。虽然这些事件造成的破坏是严重的，但它们也提供了重要的机会，以获得对产生这些事件的过程的新见解。在日本发生地震后，该项目的支持者应邀与日本海洋地球科学和技术机构的日本科学家合作，调查和记录近海地震的影响。该计划的更广泛的影响包括加强国际合作，并在研究人员的教学贡献？这一活动的最大影响是研究这些灾难性事件的高度社会相关性。

Great megathrust earthquakes and the tsumanis they generate are among are the greatest threats to populated coastlines worldwide, such as Chile, Sumatra, Alaska, and Cascadia (the regions extending from southern British Columbia into northern California). The risk of catastrophic consequences and the acute need for improved understanding of these events are underscored by the devastation caused by the 11 March 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake off northern Japan. While the destruction from these events is acute, they also offer important opportunities to gain new insights into the processes that spawn them. In the wake of the earthquake in Japan, the proponents of this project have been invited to collaborate with Japanese scientists at JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine Earth-science and Technology) to investigate and document the effects of the earthquake offshore. The broader impacts of this program include enhanced international collaboration, and a contribution to instruction at the investigators? respective institutions, but by far the greatest broader impact of this activity is the very high societal relevance of studying these catastrophic events.