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audience viewing Sumatra tsunami animation on NOAA's Sccience on a Sphere at the Smithsonian
Global propagation of the Sumatra tsunami (Dec 26, 2004) computed with the NCTR MOST model displayed on the NOAA Science on a Sphere at the Smithsonian.

Kermadec Event, July 6, 2011

Honshu, Japan Event, March 11, 2011

Mentawai, Indonesia Event, October 25, 2010

Sumatra Event, April 6, 2010

February 27, 2010 Chile

October7, 2009 Vanuatu and Santa Cruz Islands

September 29, 2009 Samoa

November 14, 2007 Northern Chile

September 12, 2007 Sumatra

August 15, 2007 Peru

April 1, 2007 Solomon Islands

January 13, 2007 Kuril Islands, Russia

November 15, 2006 Kuril Island, Russia

December 26, 2004 Indonesia (Sumatra)

June 23, 2001 Peru

July 17, 1998 Papua New Guinea Earthquake and Tsunam

June 10, 1996 Andreanov tsunami

July 12, 1993 Okushiri Tsunami (generated by the Hokkaido-Nansei-Oki earthquake)

MOST Model animations of simulated Tsunami Events

Newport, Oregon

Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake: Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca
The earthquake scenario depicted in these animations is a magnitude (Mw) 9.1 Cascadia Subduction Zone event (Priest et al., 1997 and Myers et al. 1999). This event's primary features are a rupture length of approximately 1050 km, average rupture width of 70 km, and slip of 17.5 m. More information is available in Venturato et al., 2004.

The NOAA Center for Tsunami Research modeled tsunami inundation from a great Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake for the coastal communities of Long Beach and Ocean Shores, Washington. A high-resolution numerical model was used to estimate tsunami propagation and inundation along the outer coast of southwest Washington. The tsunami source is based on prior work by Walsh et al., (2000) that simulates a great Mw 9.1 earthquake with an asperity off the coast of northern Washington. Details of this scenario and the model results are provided in Venturato et al., 2007. These animations depict wave propagation and inundation at each location.

Propagation and inundation (research products)

Detailed Inundation (research products)

Seattle Fault Earthquake

These animations are based on a simulated magnitude (Mw) 7.3 earthquake along the Seattle Fault.  Details on the fault parameters and subsequent analysis at Seattle and Tacoma, Washington, are available in Titov et al., 2003 and Venturato et al., 2007, respectively.

Tacoma Fault Earthquake

These animations depict two possible earthquake scenarios along the Tacoma Fault.  The first scenario considers a magnitude (Mw) 7.3 earthquake based on published fault traces from Johnson et al., 2004 extending from Case Inlet eastward through Dumas Bay.  The second scenario considers a magnitude (Mw) 7.3 earthquake based on an inferred wedge tip along the Rosedale monocline described in Brocher et al., 2004.  Details on the fault parameters for these scenarios are available in Venturato et al., 2007.

San Juan Islands, WA

These animations show the impact on the San Juan Islands, WA of a tsunami generated by a Mw 9.0 subduction zone event along the Cascadia margin. The scenario modeled corresponds to the L1 source in Witter et al., (2011) and is associated with a full margin rupture, an average slip of 13 m and a max slip of 27 m.

Details on the modeling are available in Arcas et al. (2020).

Witter, R.C., Y. Zhang, K. Wang, G.R. Priest, C. Goldfinger, L.L. Stimely, J.T. English, and P.A. Ferro (2011). Simulating tsunami inundation at Bandon, Coos County, Oregon, using hypothetical Cascadia and Alaska earthquake scenarios, Special Paper 43. Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, 63 pp.