A further source of Tokyo earthquakes and Pacific Ocean tsunamis

• Main Authors: Pilarczyk, Jessica E., Sawai, Yuki, Namegaya, Yuichi, Tamura, Toru, Tanigawa, Koichiro, Matsumoto, Dan, Shinozaki, Tetsuya, Fujiwara, Osamu, Shishikura, Masanobu, Shimada, Yumi, Dura, Tina, Horton, Benjamin Peter, Parnell, Andrew C., Vane, Christopher H.
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Earth and Environmental Sciences; Earthquake; Tsunami
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174619
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Earthquake hazard assessments for the Tokyo Region are complicated by the trench–trench triple junction where the oceanic Philippine Sea Plate not only underthrusts a continental plate but is also being subducted by the Pacific Plate. Great thrust earthquakes and associated tsunamis are historically...