tsunami

Rupture Evolution of the 2006 Java Tsunami Earthquake and the Possible Role of Splay Faults

The 2006 Mw 7.8 Java earthquake was a tsunami earthquake, exhibiting frequency-dependent seismic radiation along strike. High-frequency global back-projection results suggest two distinct rupture stages. The first stage lasted $∼$65s with a rupture …

A Bayesian Source Model for the 2004 Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake

The 2004 Mw 9.1?9.3 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake is one of the largest earthquakes of the modern instrumental era. Despite considerable efforts to analyze this event, the different available observations have proven difficult to reconcile in a single …

Probabilistic Imaging of Tsunamigenic Seafloor Deformation during the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake

Diverse observations from the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake pointed to large coseismic fault slip proximal to the Japan Trench. This seismic failure prompted a reevaluation of the conventional view that the outer fore-arc is generally aseismic. …

Sources of Shaking and Flooding during the Tohoku-Oki Earthquake: A Mixture of Rupture Styles

Modeling strong ground motions from great subduction zone earthquakes is one of the great challenges of computational seismology. To separate the rupture characteristics from complexities caused by 3D sub-surface geology requires an extraordinary …