The quest for wisdom: lessons from 17 tsunamis, 2004–2014

EA Okal - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Since the catastrophic Sumatra–Andaman tsunami took place in 2004, 16 other tsunamis
have resulted in significant damage and 14 in casualties. We review the fundamental …

Coseismic slip on shallow décollement megathrusts: Implications for seismic and tsunami hazard

J Hubbard, S Barbot, EM Hill, P Tapponnier - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
For years, many studies of subduction zones and on-land fold-and-thrust belts have
assumed that the frontal portions of accretionary prisms are too weak to rupture …

Upper-plate rigidity determines depth-varying rupture behaviour of megathrust earthquakes

V Sallarès, CR Ranero - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Seismological data provide evidence of a depth-dependent rupture behaviour of
earthquakes occurring at the megathrust fault of subduction zones, also known as …

Active deformation near the Nicoya Peninsula, northwestern Costa Rica, between 1996 and 2010: Interseismic megathrust coupling

L Feng, AV Newman, M Protti… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We use campaign and continuous GPS measurements at 49 sites between 1996 and 2010
to describe the long‐term active deformation in and near the Nicoya Peninsula …

Global evaluation of large earthquake energy from 1997 through mid‐2010

JA Convers, AV Newman - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We develop an updated radiated seismic energy E catalog of global earthquakes with
seismic moment M0≥ 1019 Nm (MW≥ 6.7) from 1997 through mid‐2010, recording 342 …

Sensitivity of probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment to far-field earthquake slip complexity and rigidity depth-dependence: case study of Australia

G Davies, J Griffin - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment (PTHA) often proceeds by constructing a
suite of hypothetical earthquake scenarios, and modelling their tsunamis and occurrence …

Tsunami variability from uncalibrated stochastic earthquake models: tests against deep ocean observations 2006–2016

G Davies - Geophysical Journal International, 2019 - academic.oup.com
This study tests three models for generating stochastic earthquake-tsunami scenarios on
subduction zones by comparison with deep ocean observations from 18 tsunamis during the …

Millimeter‐scale tsunami detected by a wide and dense observation array in the deep ocean: Fault modeling of an Mw 6.0 interplate earthquake off Sanriku, NE Japan

T Kubota, T Saito, W Suzuki - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A new dense and widely distributed tsunami observation network installed off northeast
Japan detected millimeter‐scale tsunamis from an Mw 6.0 shallow interplate earthquake on …

Hidden aftershocks of the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku, Japan earthquake imaged with the backprojection method

E Kiser, M Ishii - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The first 25 h of the aftershock sequence following the 11 March 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku,
Japan earthquake is investigated using a backprojection method. In total, 600 aftershocks …

Reassessment of the 1907 Sumatra “tsunami earthquake” based on macroseismic, seismological, and tsunami observations, and modeling

SS Martin, L Li, EA Okal, J Morin, AEG Tetteroo… - Pure and Applied …, 2019 - Springer
On 4 January 1907, an earthquake occurred off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, with
an instrumental surface-wave magnitude (MS) in the range of 7.5–8.0 at periods of~ 40 s …