Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

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Oral

Symbol H (Human Geosciences) » H-DS Disaster geosciences

[H-DS19] Tsunami and Tsunami Forecast

Wed. May 25, 2016 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM 201A (2F)

Convener:*Yuichi Namegaya(Institute of Earthquake and Volcano Geology, Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), Kentaro Imai(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Chair:Hideaki Yanagisawa(Department of regional Management, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Tohoku Gakuin University), Yukihiro Terada(Department of Environmental Civil Engineering and Architecture, Kochi National College of Technology)

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

[HDS19-20] Identification of dominant phases as reflected waves in tsunami observed on Pacific Ocean-Application to the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami

*Kuniaki Abe1, Masami Okada2, Yutaka Hayashi2 (1.none, 2.MRI)

Keywords:2011Tohoku Tsunami , Tide gauge records, Pacific Ocean, Reflected Waves, Reflectors

Abstract
Reflectors of tsunami are assumed in the Pacific Ocean and the travel times are calculated on refraction diagrams of the reflected waves in order to explain dominant phases as reflected waves in the following waves of tsunami. The travel times are compared with travel times of large-amplitude phases observed at tide stations and the phase is identified as the reflected wave from the consistency of travel time. The work is repeated for 21 assumed reflectors in the Pacific Ocean. This method was applied to the 2011 Tohoku tsunami. Starting times of the reflected wave were determined from the arrival times of large positive phases in tide gauge records in the neighborhood of the reflector. One to four arrival times between first and maximum waves are considered as possible origin times of reflected waves. Reflected waves from all the assumed reflectors were compared for all the arrival times of dominant phase. The reflected waves were identified for large-amplitude phases recorded at fifteen stations all over the Pacific. As the result almost all the dominant phases were identified as reflected waves from the assumed reflectors. Totally 118 answers of the reflect waves were obtained having the standard deviation of 0.52 hr. The identification of dominant phases as reflected waves recorded in Japan is show in Fig.1.