A review of the rupture characteristics of the 2011 Tohoku-oki Mw 9.1 earthquake

T Lay - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2011 March 11 Tohoku-oki great (Mw 9.1) earthquake ruptured the plate
boundary megathrust fault offshore of northern Honshu with estimates of shallow slip of 50 m …

Advances in earthquake and tsunami sciences and disaster risk reduction since the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami

K Satake - Geoscience Letters, 2014 - Springer
Abstract The December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was the worst tsunami disaster in the
world's history with more than 200,000 casualties. This disaster was attributed to giant size …

Remobilization of pollutants during extreme flood events poses severe risks to human and environmental health

SE Crawford, M Brinkmann, JD Ouellet… - Journal of hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
While it is well recognized that the frequency and intensity of flood events are increasing
worldwide, the environmental, economic, and societal consequences of remobilization and …

Parallel implementation of dispersive tsunami wave modeling with a nesting algorithm for the 2011 Tohoku tsunami

T Baba, N Takahashi, Y Kaneda, K Ando… - Pure and Applied …, 2015 - Springer
Because of improvements in offshore tsunami observation technology, dispersion
phenomena during tsunami propagation have often been observed in recent tsunamis, for …

Sensitivity of tsunami wave profiles and inundation simulations to earthquake slip and fault geometry for the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

K Goda, PM Mai, T Yasuda, N Mori - Earth, Planets and Space, 2014 - Springer
In this study, we develop stochastic random-field slip models for the 2011 Tohoku
earthquake and conduct a rigorous sensitivity analysis of tsunami hazards with respect to …

Geochemical distribution of heavy metal elements and potential ecological risk assessment of Matsushima Bay sediments during 2012–2016

Y Ota, A Suzuki, K Yamaoka, M Nagao… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Heavy metal pollution of marine sediments has attracted a great deal of attention because of
its persistence, bioaccumulation, and toxicity. To evaluate the effects of mega-tsunami …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical modeling of tsunami: Advances and future challenges after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

D Sugawara - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper reviews achievements and findings from studies associated with numerical
modeling of tsunami since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, and addresses challenges for …

Real-time tsunami inundation forecast system for tsunami disaster prevention and mitigation

A Musa, O Watanabe, H Matsuoka, H Hokari… - The Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
The tsunami disasters that occurred in Indonesia, Chile, and Japan have inflicted serious
casualties and damaged social infrastructures. Tsunami forecasting systems are thus …

Spatial thickness variability of the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami deposits along the coastline of Sendai Bay

K Goto, K Hashimoto, D Sugawara, H Yanagisawa… - Marine Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
Soon after the 2011 Tohoku-oki event, approximately 1300 tsunami deposit thickness data
were collected spatially by the governors to cover the entire tsunami affected area (Sendai …

Tsunami in the last 15 years: a bibliometric analysis with a detailed overview and future directions

N Jain, D Virmani, A Abraham - Natural Hazards, 2021 - Springer
In the last fifteen years, tsunami science has progressed at a rapid pace. Three major
tsunamis: The Indian Ocean in 2004, the 2011 Tohoku tsunami, and the 2018 Palu tsunami …