2013.4 - 2014.3 Yearbook of NILIM

Research Summary


River Department
Reference Number Y130208
Title Research on Tsunami Inundation Estimation System to Improve Disaster Response
Start-End Date 2011.4-2014.3
Division Coast Division, River Department
Author Head, Yoshio SUWA
Senior Researcher, Fuminori KATO
Researcher, Kazuki HIMENO
Summary We surveyed methods to set fault models for tsunami inundation simulations that corresponded to tsunami alerts and to estimate magnitude of an earthquake and tsunami source area from the distribution of seismic intensity, and developed a tsunami inundation database for quick emergency response to tsunami alerts just after an earthquake.