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Volume 57 Supplement 3

Special Issue: Special Section for the 2004 off the Kii peninsula earthquakes (1)

Tsunami run-up heights of the 2004 off the Kii peninsula earthquakes

Earth, Planets and Space volume 57, pages 157–160 (2005)Cite this article

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A tsunami height survey was conducted immediately after the 2004 off the Kii peninsula earthquakes. Results of the survey show that the largest tsunami height was about 4.6 m locally at Kiho-cho, Mie prefecture. Numerical simulation of the tsunami due to the earthquake was carried out using the model parameters estimated by NIED. The distribution pattern of the observed tsunami heights along the coast cannot be explained by the computed heights, because the model equation is linear long-wave theory and the run-up computations with a finer grid system are not included in this simulation. In order to explain tsunami run-up heights, it is necessary that the non-linear and run-up computation model should be used with a finer grid system.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Wakayama National College of Technology, 77 Noshima, Nada-cho, Gobo, Wakayama, 644-0023, Japan

    Nobuaki Koike

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Resource Science, Akita University, 1-1 Tegatagakuen, Akita, 010-8502, Japan

    Tomoyuki Takahashi & Kentaro Imai

  3. Institute of Seismology and Volcanology, Hokkaido University, N10W8 Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan

    Yuichiro Tanioka & Yuichi Nishimura

  4. Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto, 611-0011, Japan

    Kenji Harada & Shingo Suzuki

  5. National Defense Academy in Japan, 1-10-20 Hashirimizu, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 239-8686, Japan

    Koji Fujima & Yoshinori Shigihara

  6. Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0032, Japan

    Yuichi Namegaya

  7. Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution, 1-5-2 Wakinohama kaigan-dori, Chuo-ku, Kobe, 651-0073, Japan

    Shunichi Koshimura

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Correspondence to Nobuaki Koike.

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Koike, N., Takahashi, T., Imai, K. et al. Tsunami run-up heights of the 2004 off the Kii peninsula earthquakes. Earth Planet Sp 57, 157–160 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03351808

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Key words

  • The 2004 off the Kii peninsula earthquakes
  • tsunami height survey
  • tsunami numerical simulation