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

巨大的逆冲地震及其产生的海啸是对世界上人口稠密的海岸线的最大威胁，比如智利、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加利福尼亚北部）。2011年3月11日日本北部东北-冲地震造成的破坏，突显了灾难性后果的风险以及加强对这些事件的了解的迫切需要。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，让我们对产生这些事件的过程有了新的认识。在日本地震之后，该项目的支持者被邀请与日本海洋地球科学技术机构（JAMSTEC）的日本科学家合作，调查和记录地震对近海的影响。该项目更广泛的影响包括加强国际合作，并为研究人员提供指导。但到目前为止，这项活动最大的广泛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.