On the contribution of the horizontal sea-bed displacements into the tsunami generation process

Details On the contribution of the horizontal sea-bed displacements into the tsunami generation process On the contribution of the horizontal sea-bed displacements into the tsunami generation process

2010-11-08

arxiv.org/abs/1011.1741v3

Physics

Classical Physics

29 pages; 14 figures. Other authors papers can be downloaded at http://www.lama.univ-savoie.fr/~dutykh/

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The main reason for the generation of tsunamis is the deformation of the bottom of the ocean caused by an underwater earthquake. Usually, only the vertical bottom motion is taken into account while the horizontal co-seismic displacements are neglected in the absence of landslides. In the present study we propose a novel methodology for reconstructing all components of the bottom coseismic displacements field. Then, the sea-bed motion is transmitted onto the free surface using a three-dimensional Weakly Nonlinear (WN) approach. We pay special attention to the evolution of kinetic and potential energies of the resulting wave while the contribution of the horizontal displacements into wave energy balance is also quantified. Approaches proposed in this study are illustrated on the July 17, 2006 Java tsunami and some more recent events.

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