Abstract:Timely tsunami forecasting and dissemination of warnings are challenging tasks, especially for near-field tsunamis, which can arrive onshore in a few minutes (National Research Council, 2011). For example, the 1960 Chile tsunami (M W 9.5) arrived on Chilean coasts about 15-20 min after the earthquake, and the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami took 1,655 lives (Igarashi et al., 2011). The 2011 Tohoku (Japan) tsunami (M W 9.0) also hit the Japanese mainland 20 min after the earthquake, killing 15,641 people … Show more
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