Development of tsunami early forecast system based on realtime earthquake analysis

2.7 Disaster Prevention, Reconstruction (Earthquake, Tsunami, Volcano, Meteorology, Flood, Natural Disaster)

Hiroshi Tsuruoka

Earthquake Research Institute

Associate Professor

Seismic waveform data is collected and distributed in real time on SINET, which is a wide-area high-speed network. We will develop a tsunami early forecast system by analyzing these data immediately and using the obtained moment tensor solution.

Development of tsunami early forecast system based on realtime earthquake analysis
Earthquake Research Institute

Research collaborators

Information Technology Center, The Univ. Tokyo

Related publications

Tsuruoka, H., Kawakatsu, H., and T. Urabe , GRiD MT (Grid-based Realtime Determination of Moment Tensors) monitoring the long-period seismic wavefield , Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 175, 8--16, 2009.
Watada, S., S. Kusumoto, and K. Satake, Traveltime delay and initial phase reversal of distant tsunamis coupled with the self-gravitating elastic Earth, J. Geophys. Res., J. Geophys. Res.