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Volume 56 Supplement 3

Special Issue: Special section for the 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake

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Tsunami run-up heights of the 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake

Earth, Planets and Space volume 56, pages 359–365 (2004)Cite this article

Abstract

Tsunami height survey was conducted immediately after the 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake. Results of the survey show that the largest tsunami height was 4 m to the east of Cape Erimo, around Bansei-onsen, and locally at Mabiro. The results also show that the tsunami height distribution of the 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake is clearly different from that of the 1952 Tokachi-oki earthquake, suggesting the different source areas of the 1952 and 2003 Tokachioki earthquakes. Numerical simulation of tsunami is carried out using the slip distribution estimated by Yamanaka and Kikuchi (2003). The overall pattern of the observed tsunami height distribution along the coast is explained by the computed ones although the observed tsunami heights are slightly smaller. Large later phase observed at the tide gauge in Urakawa is the edge wave propagating from Cape Erimo along the west coast of the Hidaka area.

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

    Yuichiro Tanioka & Yuichi Nishimura

  2. Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, N10W5 Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0810, Japan

    Kazuomi Hirakawa

  3. Disaster Control Research Center, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Aoba 06, Sendai, 980-8579, Japan

    Fumihiko Imamura, Ikuo Abe, Yoshi Abe & Kazuya Shindou

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

    Hideo Matsutomi, Tomoyuki Takahashi & Kentaro Imai

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

    Kenji Harada

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

    Yuichi Namegawa

  7. Seismology and Volcanology Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute, 1-1 Nagamine, Tsukuba, 305-0052, Japan

    Yohei Hasegawa & Yutaka Hayashi

  8. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Site C7 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, 305-8567, Japan

    Futoshi Nanayama & Takanobu Kamataki

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

    Yoshiaki Kawata, Yoshinobu Fukasawa, Shunichi Koshimura, Yasunori Hada & Yusuke Azumai

  10. Deep Sea Research Department, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, 2-15 Natsuhima-cho, Yokosuka, 237-0061, Japan

    Kenji Hirata

  11. Sapporo District Meteorological Observatory, N2W18, Cyuou-ku, Sapporo, 060-0002, Japan

    Akiyasu Kamikawa, Akifumi Yoshikawa, Toru Shiga & Masaki Kobayashi

  12. Japan Meteorological Agency, 1-3-4 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-8122, Japan

    Seiichi Masaka

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Tanioka, Y., Nishimura, Y., Hirakawa, K. et al. Tsunami run-up heights of the 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake. Earth Planet Sp 56, 359–365 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03353065

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