Modeling the near-field effects of the worst-case tsunami in the Makran subduction zone

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 368-376

  Heidarzadeh, Mohammad ^a   Pirooz, Moharram D ^a   Zaker, Nasser H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Makran subduction zone (MSZ); Numerical modeling; Runup calculations; Tsunami hazard; Worst case scenario

Indexed keywords

MAKRAN SUBDUCTION ZONE (MSZ); NUMERICAL MODELING; RUNUP CALCULATIONS; TSUNAMI HAZARD; WORST-CASE SCENARIO;

EARTHQUAKES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY;

TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; NATURAL HAZARD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE BOUNDARY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TSUNAMI; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE MODELING; WAVE RUNUP;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (NORTHWEST); MAKRAN;

EID: 63449086856     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2009.01.004     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Ambraseys N.N., and Melville C.P. A History of Persian Earthquakes (1982), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Britain pp. 218
2. Ando M. Source mechanism and tectonic significance of historical earthquakes along the Nankai trough, Japan. Tectonophysics 27 (1975) 119-140
3. Ben-Menahem A., and Rosenman M. Amplitude patterns of tsunami waves from submarine earthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research 77 (1972) 3097-3128
4. Berninghausen W.H. Tsunamis and seismic seiches reported from regions adjacent to the Indian Ocean. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 56 1 (1966) 69-74
5. Byrne D.E., Sykes L.R., and Davis D.M. Great thrust earthquakes and aseismic slip along the plate boundary of the Makran subduction zone. Journal of Geophysical Research 97 B1 (1992) 449-478
6. Cummins P.R., and Kaneda Y. Possible splay fault slip during the 1946 Nankai earthquake. Geophysical Research Letters 27 17 (2000) 2725-2728
7. Geist E., Titov V., and Synolakis C. Tsunami: wave of change. Scientific American 294 1 (2006) 56-63
8. Goto, C., Ogawa, Y., Shuto, N., Imamura, F., 1997. Numerical method of tsunami simulation with the leap-frog scheme (IUGG/IOC Time Project), IOC Manual, UNESCO, No. 35.
9. Heck N.H. List of seismic sea waves. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 37 4 (1947) 269-286
10. Heidarzadeh M., Pirooz M.D., Zaker N.H., Yalciner A.C., Mokhtari M., and Esmaeily A. Historical tsunami in the Makran subduction zone off the southern coasts of Iran and Pakistan and results of numerical modeling. Ocean Engineering 35 8 & 9 (2008) 774-786
11. Heidarzadeh M., Pirooz M.D., Zaker N.H., and Synolakis C.E. Evaluating tsunami hazard in the northwestern Indian Ocean. Pure and Applied Geophysics 165 11-12 (2008) 2045-2058 10.1007/s00024-008-0415-8
12. Heidarzadeh M., Pirooz M.D., Zaker N.H., and Yalciner A.C. Preliminary estimation of the tsunami hazards associated with the Makran subduction zone at the northwestern Indian Ocean. Natural Hazards 48 2 (2009) 229-243 10.1007/s11069-008-9259-x
13. IOC, IHO, BODC, 2003. Centenary edition of the GEBCO digital atlas, published on CD-ROM on behalf of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the International Hydrographic Organization as part of the general bathymetric chart of the oceans, British oceanographic data centre, Liverpool.
14. Kanoglu U., and Synolakis C.E. Long wave runup on piecewise linear topographies. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 374 (1998) 1-28
15. Legg M.R., Borrero J.C., and Synolakis C.E. Tsunami hazards associated with the Catalina fault in southern California. Earthquake Spectra 20 3 (2004) 1-34
16. Mansinha L., and Smylie D.E. The displacement field of inclined faults. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 61 5 (1971) 1433-1440
17. McCaffrey R. The next great earthquake. Science 315 (2007) 1675-1676
18. Mokhtari M., Abdollahie I., and Khaled Hessami H. Structural elements of the Makran region, Oman sea and their potential relevance to tsunamigenesis. Natural Hazards 47 (2008) 185-199
19. Okal E.A., and Synolakis C.E. Far-field tsunami hazard from mega-thrust earthquakes in the Indian Ocean. Geophysical Journal International 172 3 (2008) 995-1015
20. Okal E.A. Seismic records of the 2004 Sumatra and other tsunamis: a quantitative study. Pure and Applied Geophysics 164 (2007) 325-353
21. Okal E.A., and Synolakis C.E. Source discriminants for near-field tsunamis. Geophysical Journal International 158 (2004) 899-912
22. Page W.D., Alt J.N., Cluff L.S., and Plafker G. Evidence for the recurrence of large-magnitude earthquakes along the Makran coast of Iran and Pakistan. Tectonophysics 52 (1979) 533-547
23. Plafker G. Alaskan earthquake of 1964 and Chilean earthquake of 1960: implications for arc tectonics. Journal of Geophysical Research 77 (1972) 901-923
24. Plafker, G., Ward, S.N., Nishenko, S.P., Cluff, L.S., Coonrad, J., Syahrial, D., 2007. Evidence for a secondary tectonic source for the cataclysmic tsunami of 12/26/2004 on NW Sumatra. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Annual meeting, Kona, Hawaii, April 11-13. Abstract.
25. Quittmeyer R.C., and Jacob K.H. Historical and modem seismicity of Pakistan, Afghanistan, northwestern India, and southeastern Iran. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 69 3 (1979) 773-823
26. Sibuet J.C., et al. 26th December 2004 great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake: Co-seismic and post-seismic motions in northern Sumatra. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 263 (2007) 88-103
27. Stein S., and Okal E.A. Ultralong period seismic study of the December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and implications for regional tectonics and the subduction process. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 97 1A (2007) S279-S295
28. Synolakis C.E. Tsunami and seiche. In: Chen W.F., and Scawthorn C. (Eds). Earthquake Engineering Handbook (2003), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 1-90 (Chapter 9)
29. Synolakis C.E., and Bernard E.N. Tsunami science before and beyond Boxing Day 2004. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 364 (2006) 2231-2265
30. Synolakis C.E., Borrero J.C., Kanoglu U., and Dolan J. The slump origin of 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 457 (2001) 1-27
31. Synolakis C.E., and Kong L. Runup measurements of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Earthquake Spectra 22 S3 (2006) S67-S91
32. Tinti S., Armigliato A., Manucci A., Pagnoni G., Zaniboni F., Yalciner A.C., and Altinok Y. The generating mechanisms of the august 17th, 1999 Izmit Bay (Turkey) tsunami: regional (tectonic) and local (mass instabilities) causes. Marine Geology 225 (2006) 311-330
33. Titov V.V., and Synolakis C.E. Extreme inundation flow during the Hokkaido-Nansei-Oki tsunami. Geophysical Research Letters 24 (1997) 1315-1318
34. Wells D.L., and Coppersmith K.J. New empirical relationships among magnitude, rupture length, rupture width, rupture area, and surface displacement. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 84 4 (1994) 974-1002
35. Yalciner A.C., Pelinovsky E., Talipova T., Kurkin A., Kozelkov A., and Zaitsev A. Tsunamis in the Black Sea: comparison of the historical, instrumental, and numerical data. Journal of Geophysical Research 109 12 (2004) 2003-2113
36. Yeh H., Liu P., and Synolakis C.E. Long Wave Runup Models (1996), World Scientific Publication Company, London pp. 403