Paleo-tsunami history along the northern Japan Trench: evidence from Noda Village, northern Sanriku coast, Japan

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作者
Inoue, Taiga [1 ]
Goto, Kazuhisa [2 ]
Nishimura, Yuichi [3 ]
Watanabe, Masashi [4 ]
Iijima, Yasutaka [1 ,5 ]
Sugawara, Daisuke [1 ,2 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Tohoku Univ, Grad Sch Sci, Dept Earth Sci, Sendai, Miyagi 9808578, Japan
[2] Tohoku Univ, Int Res Inst Disaster Sci, Aoba Ku, 468-1 Aza Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi 9800845, Japan
[3] Hokkaido Univ, Inst Seismol & Volcanol, Fac Sci, Sapporo, Hokkaido 0600810, Japan
[4] Tohoku Univ, Grad Sch Engn, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Aoba Ku, 468-1-305 Aza Aoba, Sendai, Miyagi 9800845, Japan
[5] INPEX Corp, Minato Ku, Akasaka Biz Tower 5-3-1, Tokyo 1076332, Japan
[6] Museum Nat & Environm Hist, Suruga Ku, 5762 Oya, Shizuoka, Shizuoka 4228017, Japan
关键词
Paleo-tsunami; Sanriku coast; Japan; Tsunami deposit identification; AD 869 Jogan tsunami; Storm wave; Numerical modeling; STORM DEPOSITS; PACIFIC COAST; EVENTS; REEXAMINATION; EARTHQUAKES; GENERATION; LACUSTRINE; KOYADORI; DISTANCE; PLAIN;
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10.1186/s40645-017-0158-1
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P [天文学、地球科学];
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07 ;
摘要
Throughout history, large tsunamis have frequently affected the Sanriku area of the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region, Japan, which faces the Japan Trench. Although a few studies have examined paleo-tsunami deposits along the Sanriku coast, additional studies of paleo-earthquakes and tsunamis are needed to improve our knowledge of the timing, recurrence interval, and size of historical and pre-historic tsunamis. At Noda Village, in Iwate Prefecture on the northern Sanriku coast, we found at least four distinct gravelly sand layers based on correlation and chronological data. Sedimentary features such as grain size and thickness suggest that extreme waves from the sea formed these layers. Numerical modeling of storm waves further confirmed that even extremely large storm waves cannot account for the distribution of the gravelly sand layers, suggesting that these deposits are highly likely to have formed by tsunami waves. The numerical method of storm waves can be useful to identify sand layers as tsunami deposits if the deposits are observed far inland or at high elevations. The depositional age of the youngest tsunami deposit is consistent with the AD 869 Jogan earthquake tsunami, a possible predecessor of the AD 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami. If this is the case, then the study site currently defines the possible northern extent of the AD 869 Jogan tsunami deposit, which is an important step in improving the tsunami source model of the AD 869 Jogan tsunami. Our results suggest that four large tsunamis struck the Noda site between 1100 and 2700 cal BP. The local tsunami sizes are comparable to the AD 2011 and AD 1896 Meiji Sanriku tsunamis, considering the landward extent of each tsunami deposit.
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