Fault parameters of the 1896 Sanriku tsunami earthquake estimated from tsunami numerical modeling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1549-1552

  Tanioka, Yuichiro ^a   Satake, Kenji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES; TSUNAMIS; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; TIDE GAGES;

EPICENTERS; FAULT LINES; FAULTS ZONES; NORMAL MODE THEORY; SEISMIC INTENSITY; TSUNAMI EARTHQUAKE; WAVE MAGNITUDE;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT; FAULT PARAMETERS; SANRIKU EARTHQUAKE 1896; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SUBDUCTED SEDIMENT; TSUNAMI; TSUNAMIS;

JAPAN;

ACCRETIONARY WEDGE; FAULT PARAMETERS; FAULT STRIKE; MAXIMUM RUN-UP; SEISMIC INTENSITY; SURFACE WAVE MAGNITUDES; TIDE GAUGES; TSUNAMI DISASTER;

EID: 0030175252     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01479     Document Type: Article

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