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http://dx.doi.org/10.5000/EESK.2010.14.4.017

Tsunami Hazard Evaluation for the East Coast of Korea by using Empirical Tsunami Data  

Kim, Min-Kyu (한국원자력연구원 종합안전평가부)
Choi, In-Kil (한국원자력연구원 종합안전평가부)
Kang, Keum-Seok (한전전력연구원 녹색성장연구소)
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Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea / v.14, no.4, 2010 , pp. 17-22 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, a tsunami hazard curve was determined for a probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) of a tsunami event at a Nuclear Power Plant site. A Tsunami catalogue was developed by using the historical tsunami record prior to 1900 and the instrumental tsunami record after 1900. For the evaluation of the return period of the tsunami run-up height, power-law, upper-truncated power law and exponential function were considered for the assessment of regression curves and each result was compared. Although there were in total only 9 tsunami records on the east coast of Korea during the time period of the tsunami catalogue, there is no research like this about tsunami hazard curve evaluation, so this research lays a foundation for probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment (PTHA)
Keywords
Tsunami; Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA); Maximum run-up height; Return period; Regression curve;
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