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Statistical relations of the run-up height of Tsunami waves to the distance and energy of the source

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A statistical analysis of the relation between the run-up height of historical tsunami events and the distance and magnitude of the source was performed on the basis of the known Historical Tsunami Data Base [5]. The sample from the database used for the analysis comprises 5638 run-ups caused by 628 seismic events. This analysis, together with the dimensionality theory, shows that the statistical average of the run-up height is inversely proportional to the distance from the source to a power close to 1/2 (that is characteristic of the cylindrically symmetrical case) and directly proportional to the 3/8 power of the earthquake energy.

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  1. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    P. O. Zav’yalov

  2. Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia

    B. V. Levin & O. N. Likhacheva

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Original Russian Text © P.O. Zav’yalov, B.V. Levin, O.N. Likhacheva, 2006, published in Okeanologiya, 2006, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 14–20.

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Zav’yalov, P.O., Levin, B.V. & Likhacheva, O.N. Statistical relations of the run-up height of Tsunami waves to the distance and energy of the source. Oceanology 46, 10–16 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437006010024

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