The earthquake and tsunami of 1865 November 17: evidence for far-field tsunami hazard from Tonga

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Apr 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004geoji.157..164o&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 157, Issue 1, pp. 164-174.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Historical Earthquakes, Tonga Islands, Tsunami Hazard, Tsunami Simulation

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Historical reports of an earthquake in Tonga in 1865 November identify it as the only event from that subduction zone which generated a far-field tsunami observable without instruments. Run-up heights reached 2 m in Rarotonga and 80 cm in the Marquesas Islands. Hydrodynamic simulations require a moment of 4 × 1028 dyn cm, a value significantly larger than previous estimates of the maximum size of earthquake to be expected at the Tonga subduction zone. This warrants an upwards re-evaluation of the tsunami risk from Tonga to the Cook Islands and the various Polynesian chains, which had hitherto been regarded as minor.

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