Field Survey of the 1945 Makran and 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunamis in Baluchistan, Iran

We report the result of a 2010 survey of the effects on the Iranian coastline of the tsunami which followed the earthquake of 27 November 1945 ( M 0  = 2.8 × 10 28  dyn cm; M w  = 8.2), the only large event recorded along the Makran subduction zone since the onset of instrumental seismology. Based o...

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Published in:Pure and applied geophysics 2015-12, Vol.172 (12), p.3343-3356
Main Authors: Okal, Emile A., Fritz, Hermann M., Hamzeh, Mohammad Ali, Ghasemzadeh, Javad
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amplitudes
Borders
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Earthquakes
Geophysics/Geodesy
Indian Ocean
Seismology
Shores
Studies
Subduction (geology)
Tsunamis
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Summary:We report the result of a 2010 survey of the effects on the Iranian coastline of the tsunami which followed the earthquake of 27 November 1945 ( M 0  = 2.8 × 10 28  dyn cm; M w  = 8.2), the only large event recorded along the Makran subduction zone since the onset of instrumental seismology. Based on the interview of elderly survivors of the event, we obtained a database of nine values of run-up or splash amplitudes on a segment of shore extending 280 km from Souraf in the West to Pasabandar near the Pakistani border, and ranging in vertical amplitude from 2.3 to 13.7 m. Witness reports are consistent with a significant delay (estimated at ~2.5 h) of the tsunami waves, suggesting that they were generated by an ancillary phenomenon, such as a landslide triggered by the earthquake. None of our witnesses bore ancestral memory of comparable events in the past, suggesting that reported predecessors to the 1945 earthquake may have been smaller in size. The survey also allowed the compilation of previously unreported data concerning the effects of the 2004 Sumatra–Andaman tsunami.
ISSN:0033-4553
1420-9136
DOI:10.1007/s00024-015-1157-z