Environment, Coasts, Oceans, & Infrastructure

Nomana – nice to see the attached version of your article. It fills the queries of many interested in tsunamigenic earthquakes. 

Some of my works on tsunami propagation, modeling, runup and forces made me curious about it:

Website Essays – Tsunami and Tsunami Forces; Force Fields in a Coastal System

2006 World Scientific Paper – Modeling Tsunami and Resonance Response of Alberni Inlet, British Columbia

2008 Discussion Article – Discussion of “Maximum Fluid Forces in the Tsunami Runup Zone” by Harry Yeh, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering.

Your article shows that the generated tsunami is rather small, 0.85 m – with the immediate vicinity, Kuril Islands runup of about 5 m. A tsunami of such a small magnitude – might have dissipated and dispersed into rather minor heights across the Pacific.

There were two articles I came across published immediately after the quake. Both of them addressed the question why the tsunami height was small by citing expert opinions. Here are the links:

A BBC Article

A Scientific American Article

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Dr. Dilip K Barua, Ph.D

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Thanks for posting. This will be a useful addition to the literature when fleshed out and published in a journal. I suggest the ASCE Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal. and Ocean Engineering,

Bill Mc