Overview of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami damage and its relation to coastal protection along the Sanriku coast

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 29, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Mori, Nobuhito ^a   Cox, Daniel T ^b   Yasuda, Tomohiro ^a   Mase, Hajime ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SURVEYS; TSUNAMIS;

2011 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES; CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURES; COASTAL FOREST; COASTAL PROTECTION; COASTAL STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PROTECTION STRATEGY; TSUNAMI DAMAGES;

SHORE PROTECTION;

BREAKWATER; COASTAL PROTECTION; COASTAL STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI; WAVE HEIGHT;

HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; KAMAISHI; SANRIKU COAST; TOHOKU;

EID: 84877936981     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.4000118     Document Type: Review

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