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Volume 57 Supplement 4

Special Issue: Special Section for the 2004 off the Kii peninsula earthquakes (2)

Tsunami due to the 2004 September 5th off the Kii peninsula earthquake, Japan, recorded by a new GPS buoy

Earth, Planets and Space volume 57, pages 297–301 (2005)Cite this article

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A tsunami due to the 2004 M7.4 September 5th earthquake off of the Kii peninsula, Japan, was recorded at the GPS buoy newly designed and established in April 2004, about 13 km off of the Muroto Promontory, southwestern Japan. The tsunami arrived at the buoy about 8 minutes before its arrival to the nearest tide gauge station at the tip of the Muroto Promontory. The predicted tsunami record based on preliminary source model shows excellent agreement (rms 2.7 cm) with the observed GPS record. This demonstrates that GPS buoy observations can be used not only for a tsunami warning system, but also for precise determination of the tsunami source.

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  1. Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo, Japan

    Teruyuki Kato

  2. Technical Research Institute, Hitachi Zosen Co. Ltd., Japan

    Yukihiro Terada, Keiji Ito, Ryuji Hattori, Takenori Abe & Toshihide Miyake

  3. Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Inst., Japan

    Shun’ichi Koshimura

  4. Port and Airport Research Institute, Japan

    Toshihiko Nagai

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Kato, T., Terada, Y., Ito, K. et al. Tsunami due to the 2004 September 5th off the Kii peninsula earthquake, Japan, recorded by a new GPS buoy. Earth Planet Sp 57, 297–301 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03352566

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Key words

  • The 2004 off of the Kii peninsula earthquake
  • GPS buoy
  • Tsunami