Integrated Ground Motion and Tsunami Simulation for the 1944 Tonankai Earthquake Using High-Performance Supercomputers

Journal of Disaster Research

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 118-126

  Furumura, Takashi ^a   Saito, Tatsuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

1944 Tonankai earthquake; Earth Simulator; long period ground motions; Nankai Trough earthquake; strong ground motion; tsunami

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

1944 TONANKAI EARTHQUAKE; EARTH SIMULATORS; GROUND MOTIONS SIMULATIONS; INTEGRATED SIMULATIONS; LONG-PERIOD GROUND MOTIONS; NANKAI TROUGHS; NANKAI-TROUGH EARTHQUAKE; PERFORMANCE; STRONG GROUND MOTION; TSUNAMI SIMULATION;

TSUNAMIS;

EID: 77954422626     PISSN: 18812473     EISSN: 18838030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jdr.2009.p0118     Document Type: Article

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