{"id":77335,"date":"2018-04-02T10:04:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/modeling-future-earthquake-and-tsunami-risk-in-southeast-japan"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:08:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:08:54","slug":"modeling-future-earthquake-and-tsunami-risk-in-southeast-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/modeling-future-earthquake-and-tsunami-risk-in-southeast-japan","title":{"rendered":"Modeling future earthquake and tsunami risk in southeast Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/modeling-future-earthquake-and-tsunami-risk-in-southeast-japan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Geoscience researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Smith College and the Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology this week unveiled new, GPS-based methods for modeling earthquake-induced tsunamis for southeast Japan along the Nankai Trough. A Nankai-induced tsunami is likely to hit there in the next few decades, says lead author Hannah Baranes at UMass Amherst, and has the potential to displace four times the number of people affected by the massive Tohoku tsunami of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>She and her doctoral advisor Jonathan Woodruff, with Smith College professor Jack Loveless and Mamoru Hyodo at the Japanese agency report details in the current <i>Geophysical Research Letters<\/i>. Baranes says, \u201cWe hope our work will open the door for applying similar techniques elsewhere in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As she explains, after the unexpectedly devastating 2011 quake and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tsunami\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tsunami<\/a>, Japan\u2019s government called for hazard-assessment research to define the nation\u2019s worst-case scenarios for earthquakes and tsunamis. Baranes notes, \u201cThe government guideline has focused attention on the Nankai Trough. It\u2019s a fault offshore of southern Japan that is predicted to generate a magnitude 8 to 9 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/earthquake\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">earthquake<\/a> within the next few decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-04-future-earthquake-tsunami-southeast-japan.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;04-future-earthquake-tsunami-southeast-japan.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoscience researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Smith College and the Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology this week unveiled new, GPS-based methods for modeling earthquake-induced tsunamis for southeast Japan along the Nankai Trough. A Nankai-induced tsunami is likely to hit there in the next few decades, says lead author Hannah Baranes at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77408,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77335\/revisions\/77408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}