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Table 1 Regional K and κ values for five earthquake scenarios

From: The possibility of deeper or shallower extent of the source area of Nankai Trough earthquakes based on the 1707 Hoei tsunami heights along the Pacific and Seto Inland Sea coasts, southwest Japan

 

Kyushu (20)

Shikoku (73)

Kinki (29)

Tokai (7)

Seto (15)

Scenario

K

κ

K

κ

K

κ

K

κ

K

κ

 Large

0.59

1.73

0.74

1.78

0.93

1.49

1.48

1.78

1.18

1.50

 Small

0.99

1.91

1.48

1.83

2.02

1.44

3.00

1.66

1.96

1.48

 Sub 1

1.39

1.85

0.83

1.59

0.66

1.47

1.26

1.87

2.34

1.67

 Sub 2

1.22

1.89

0.72

1.70

0.69

1.42

1.16

1.79

2.31

1.70

 Sub 3

1.01

1.74

0.98

1.61

0.90

1.47

1.93

1.56

1.37

1.46

  1. K indicates the geometric mean of the ratio of observed to simulated tsunami height and κ shows the uncertainty in K. Numerals in the top row indicate the number of damaged sites used for the evaluation of regional K and κ.
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