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Challenges of anticipating the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami using coastal geology

  1. Yuki Sawai1,*,
  2. Yuichi Namegaya1,
  3. Yukinobu Okamura1,
  4. Kenji Satake1,2,
  5. Masanobu Shishikura1

Article first published online: 9 NOV 2012

DOI: 10.1029/2012GL053692

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Geophysical Research Letters

Geophysical Research Letters

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Sawai, Y., Y. Namegaya, Y. Okamura, K. Satake, and M. Shishikura (2012), Challenges of anticipating the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami using coastal geology, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L21309, doi:10.1029/2012GL053692.

Author Information

  1. 1

    Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan

  2. 2

    Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

*Corresponding author: Y. Sawai, Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST Tsukuba Central 7, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8567, Japan. (yuki.sawai@aist.go.jp)

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 9 NOV 2012
  2. Article first published online: 9 NOV 2012
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 14 OCT 2012
  4. Manuscript Revised: 11 OCT 2012
  5. Manuscript Received: 27 AUG 2012

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