Tsunami hazard from the subduction megathrust of the South China Sea : Part I. source characterization and the resulting tsunami

• Main Authors: Megawati, Kusnowidjaja, Shaw, Felicia, Sieh, Kerry, Huang, Zhenhua, Wu, Tso-Ren, Lin, Yunung, Tan, Soon Keat, Pan, Tso-Chien
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95663; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8672
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The subduction megathrust under the Manila Trench has been accumulating strain over a period of 440 years or more, and could be the source for a giant earthquake of Mw ∼ 9. We present a plausible earthquake rupture model constructed from seismic and geodetic data, together with hydrodynamic simulati...