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Tsunami inundation hazards from global earthquake sources: Towards high-resolution, large area maps with quantified uncertainties

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Australia's coastline is exposed to tsunamis generated by large subduction earthquakes in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. While recent events had limited impacts in Australia, future earthquakes could in-principle direct much larger waves to our coast. With only a few hours between earthquake detection and tsunami arrival, prior planning is necessary to guide the emergency response. To this end we need an understanding of tsunami hazards: which coastal areas might be inundated, how deep, and how likely? This talk will discuss recent progress in tsunami inundation hazard assessment at Geoscience Australia. We adopt a probabilistic approach to the problem, which involves modelling hypothetical earthquake-tsunamis from major Indian and Pacific Ocean sources, their effects onshore, and their (uncertain) chance of occurrence. To illuminate the science underlying this we will consider: 1. How well tsunami models can simulate historical tsunamis; 2. Representations of hypothetical tsunamis and their natural variability; 3. New techniques to compute onshore hazards while accounting for uncertain earthquake frequencies.

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Title Tsunami inundation hazards from global earthquake sources: Towards high-resolution, large area maps with quantified uncertainties
Language eng
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Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/70c31ec9-6ae8-4f36-9047-b392425d8372
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Geoscience Australia
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 08/04/2019
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[112.0, -44.0], [154.0, -44.0], [154.0, -9.0], [112.0, -9.0], [112.0, -44.0]]]}
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