RAPID - Collaborative Research - Offshore impacts of the Tohoku-Oki earthquake on seafloor deformation, sedimentation, erosion, tsunamigenesis

RAPID - 合作研究 - 东北冲地震对海底变形、沉积、侵蚀、海啸发生的近海影响

• 批准号: 1139036
• 负责人: Cecilia McHugh
• 金额: $ 8.71万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1139036&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Collaborative; Research; Offshore; impacts

Great megathrust earthquakes and the tsumanis they generate are among are the greatest threats to populated coastlines worldwide, such as Chile, Sumatra, Alaska, and Cascadia (the regions extending from southern British Columbia into northern California). The risk of catastrophic consequences and the acute need for improved understanding of these events are underscored by the devastation caused by the 11 March 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake off northern Japan. While the destruction from these events is acute, they also offer important opportunities to gain new insights into the processes that spawn them. In the wake of the earthquake in Japan, the proponents of this project have been invited to collaborate with Japanese scientists at JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine Earth-science and Technology) to investigate and document the effects of the earthquake offshore. The broader impacts of this program include enhanced international collaboration, and a contribution to instruction at the investigators? respective institutions, but by far the greatest broader impact of this activity is the very high societal relevance of studying these catastrophic events.

大型大型地震和他们产生的tsumanis是全球人口稠密的海岸线的最大威胁之一，例如智利，苏门答腊，阿拉斯加和卡斯卡迪亚（从不列颠哥伦比亚省南部延伸到北加州的地区）。 2011年3月11日，日本北部地震造成的破坏，强调了对这些事件的灾难性后果和对这些事件的急需的急需需求。尽管这些事件的破坏是严重的，但它们也提供了重要的机会，可以获得对产生它们的过程的新见解。在日本地震发生后，该项目的支持者已被邀请与JAMSTEC（日本海洋科学和技术机构）的日本科学家合作调查和记录地震海上的影响。该计划的更广泛影响包括增强的国际合作，以及对调查人员的教学的贡献？各自的机构，但到目前为止，这项活动的最大影响是研究这些灾难性事件的很高的社会意义。