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Damage along Coasts in Sendai Bay Caused by the 2011 Great Tsunami
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Sakai, Kazuya Uda, Takaaki San-Nami, Toshiro Shimizu, Tatsuya |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | A great earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 occurred on March 11, 2011, with an epicenter 130 km offshore of the Oshika Peninsula in Miyagi Prefecture. After the earthquake, a giant tsunami inundated a large area along Japan’s eastern coastline. We carried out field observations to investigate the damage to Arahama Town and the formation of a trench as a result of local scouring by the jet flow over the coastal dike. Here, the results of the field observations on the inundation of the tsunami into a wide residential area on Shobuta Beach and in Arahama Town were reported. Then, the destruction of the coastal dike, as well as the formation of a large trench immediately behind the coastal dike due to the tsunami overflow on the Yamamoto coast, was investigated, where the tsunami height reached up to 19.2 m above mean sea level (MSL), estimated from the run-up height on the slope of a hill. |
| Starting Page | 13 |
| Ending Page | 13 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.9753/icce.v33.currents.13 |
| Volume Number | 1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://journals.tdl.org/icce/index.php/icce/article/download/6472/pdf_485 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v33.currents.13 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
