Affiliation:
1. Earthquake Research Institute The University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan
2. Graduate School of Science and Technology Hirosaki University Aomori Japan
3. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience Ibaraki Japan
Abstract
AbstractOn 8 October 2023, mysterious tsunamis with a maximum wave height of 60 cm were observed in Izu Islands and southwestern Japan, although only seismic events with body‐wave magnitudes mb 4–5 have been documented to the west of Sofugan volcano. To investigate the source process, we analyze tsunami waveforms recorded by an array network of ocean bottom pressure gauges. Stacked waveforms of pressure gauge records suggest recurrent arrivals of multiple wave trains. Deconvolution of the stacked waveforms by tsunami waveforms from an earlier event revealed over 10 source events that intermittently generated tsunamis for ∼1.5 hr. The temporal history of this sequence corresponds to the origin times of T‐phases estimated by an ocean bottom seismometer and of the seismic swarm, implying a common origin. Larger events later in the sequence occurred at intervals comparable to the tsunami wave period, causing amplification of later phases of the tsunami waves.
Publisher
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,Geophysics
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