Challenges of anticipating the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami using coastal geology

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 21, 2012, Pages

  Sawai, Yuki ^a   Namegaya, Yuichi ^a   Okamura, Yukinobu ^a   Satake, Kenji ^a,b   Shishikura, Masanobu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; STRATIGRAPHY; TSUNAMIS;

COASTAL GEOLOGY; COASTAL LANDFORMS; COASTAL LOWLAND; FAULT RUPTURE AREA; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; PADDY FIELDS; RADIOCARBON AGE; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; SAND DEPOSITS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TSUNAMI DEPOSITS; TSUNAMI HAZARDS; VOLCANIC ASH;

EARTHQUAKES;

COASTAL LANDFORM; COASTAL ZONE; PALEOSEISMICITY; RADIOCARBON DATING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBSIDENCE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; MIYAGI; SANRIKU; SENDAI; TOHOKU;

EID: 84869478488     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053692     Document Type: Article

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