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Scenario Earthquake and Tsunami Simulations for a Pacific Rim GNSS Tsunami Early Warning System
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Schultz, Kasey W. |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | The first operational prototype for a Pacific Rim Tsunami Early Warning (TEW) system utilizing real-time data from the Global Navigational Satellite System (GNSS) is expected to be planned and developed over the next five years. Since the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and tsunami in Japan, advancements in the rapid determination of earthquake and tsunami parameters from landand sea-based Global Positioning System (GPS) instruments have given rise to broad support from many international research and disaster organizations including NASA. The proposed Pacific Rim TEW prototype would use earthquake parameters rapidly determined from GPS data to select the most similar earthquake and tsunami scenario from a database of precomputed scenarios to guide alerts and disaster response. To facilitate the development of this Pacific Rim TEW system, I propose integrating tsunami modeling capabilities into the earthquake simulator Virtual Quake (formerly Virtual California). With this refinement, Virtual Quake would produce catalogs of tsunami scenarios for a wide range of simulated subduction zone earthquakes. Virtual Quake would also produce probabilities for these scenarios by extending previously developed techniques for computing conditional probabilities of large earthquakes. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://schultz.physics.ucdavis.edu/docs/Kasey_Schultz_NESSF_2015.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
