• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.265-276
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• 2016

The 2011 Tohoku, Japan Tsunami, which occurred on March 11, 2011, reached the Korean Peninsula and was recorded at numerous tide stations. In the records of the north-eastern tide stations, tsunami forerunners were found in only about a few minutes after the earthquake, which was much earlier than the expected arrival time based on a numerical simulation. Murotani et al. (2015) found out that the bathymetry effect is related to the tsunami forerunners observed in Japan and Russia. In this study, the tsunami forerunners observed in Korea were well reproduced by a numerical simulation considering the bathymetry effect. This indicates that it is important to consider the bathymetry effect for a tsunami caused by an earthquake on shallowly dipping fault plane(e.g. 2011 Tohoku, Japan Earthquake). However, since the bathymetry effect requires additional computation time, it is necessary to examine the problems that results from applying the bathymetry effect to the tsunami warning system.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2002

In the past, safety assessment on the site of Ulchin Nuclear Power Plants against tsunamis was carried out with probable maximum earthquake magnitude and related tsunamigenic fault parameters. Recently, however, based on the seismic gap theory, some seismologists warned about earthquakes of larger magnitudes than had been expected. In this study, we revaluated tsunami risk with a finite difference model based on linear and nonlinear shallow water equations. Firstly, we simulated the\`83 tsunami and compared the calculated water surface profile with the observed wave heights. Secondly, we evaluated the rise and drop of sea water level at the site of Ulchin Nuclear Power Plant with fault parameters of the past '83, '93 tsunamis and some dangerous faults. Finally, we showed that the cooling water intake facility of Ulchin Nuclear Power Plants would be safely operated in disastrous tsunamis.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.1-17
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• 2002

Prognostic characteristics of hypothetical tsunamis in the East Sea are further discussed based on numerical simulations using linear long wave theory than the last paper(Choi et al). As for choice of source zones, we used 28 cases based on fault parameters of hypothetical earthquakes and 76 cases based on simple initial surface shapes of tsunamigenic earthquakes selected by the seismic gap theory. As a result, the wave heights along the whole coastline adjacent to the East See of tsunamis due to these hypothetical earthquake are presented. Analyses also lead us to conclude that the selection of geographical zones with low risk of tsunamis can be used as a tool for coastal disaster mitigation planning.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.43 no.12
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• pp.1075-1082
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• 2010

The most effective and economic way for the mitigation planing against tsunami disasters is to develop an emergency action plan along the coastline vulnerable to unexpected tsunami attacks. The plan should be developed based on the historical tsunami events and the projected scenarios. In this study, an evacuation simulation is made based on the projected scenarios at Imwon Port as a part of the emergency action plan. The produced simulation could be used by the authorized organizations in a disaster training against tsunami attacks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.65-67
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• 2012

2011년 3월 센다이 앞바다 약 130km지점에서 엄청난 지진해일을 동반한 규모 9.0 초대형 지진이 발생하였다. 많은 지역에서 범람고가 10m를 상회하였으며, 큰 피해가 발생한 곳의 경우 지진해일의 처오름 높이가 23.6m에 달한 곳도 있었다. 이 쓰나미는 지진 발생후 30분만에 첫 번째 지진해일이 해안에 도달하였고, 이 후 수차례 반복하여 내습하였다. 이러한 지진해일의 대책중 하나는 지진해일 발생시 5~10분 이내에 기상청에서 경보를 발령하고 대피 체계를 구축하는 것이다. 이와 같은 이유로 본 연구에서는 지진해일을 검출하기 위한 기저거리 비종속 정밀측위기술을 제안하였다. 원해에서는 기준국과의 위치가 멀기 때문에 DGNSS의 사용이 힘들다. 그러므로 단독 GPS 측위에 영향을 주는 오차를 제거하고 Kalman filter를 이용하여 정확한 위치를 추정한다. 또한 성능 검증을 위한 파랑의 동적특성을 고려한 테스트베드를 개발하였고, 그 유용성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.2098-2101
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 최근 5년간 서해에서 발생한 해저 지진 중에서 가장 큰 지진인 2003년 3월 23일에 발생한 해저 지진의 진앙지(북위 $35^{\circ}$, 동경 $124.6^{\circ}$)에 우리 나라에 가장 큰 피해를 입힌 1983년 동해 중부 지진해일의 지진 매개변수(parameter)를 적용한 가상 지진해일을 발생시키고 새만금 지역의 최대 처오름 높이를 계산하였다. 가상지진해일에 대한 수치모의 결과 새만금 지역에서는 $0.4{\sim}0.9m$의 파고가 발생하겠으며, 이러한 결과는 지진해일로 인한 새만금 방조제 유실 및 방조제 내부의 재난방재를 위한 기초적 자료가 될 것이다.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.3-7
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• 2005

Focal mechanism of the real and imaginary faults in the western coast of Japan has been assumed by examining the previous studies on the seismicity, seismic gap, fault behaviors, seismic zoning, and faults. In the area of no seismic information, the focal mechanism has been assumed to have the maximum influence on the tsunami height in the eastern coast of Korea. The tsunami height in a particular point of the eastern coast of Korea can vary up to 7 orders with the variation of the strike of the fault in a particular source point of the western coast of Japan with constant magnitude. Tsunami scenario DB including tile arrival times and tsunami heights has been constructing by using the assumed focal mechanism of the western coast of Japan. Tsunami warning system will be reinforced by using this tsunami scenario DB near future.

• Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.93-96
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• 2005

Focal mechanism of the real and imaginary faults in the western coast of Japan has been assumed by examining the previous studies on the seismicity, seismic gap, fault behaviors, seismic zoning, and faults. In the area of no seismic information, the focal mechanism has been assumed to have the maximum influence on the tsunami height in the eastern coast of Korea. The tsunami height in a particular point of the eastern coast of Korea can vary up to 7 orders with the variation of the strike of the fault in a particular source point of the western coast of Japan with constant magnitude. Tsunami scenario DB including the arrival times and tsunami heights has been constructing by using the assumed focal mechanism of the western coast of Japan. Tsunami warning system will be reinforced by using this tsunami scenario DB near future.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.171-177
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• 2011

Tsunami forces acting on coastal structures have not been relatively much paid attention by researchers. However, they should be appropriately reflected in design of coastal and harbor facilities. The temporary and permanent tsunami shelters have to be chosen to resist stably against unexpected tsunami forces. There have been only few numerical studies on the tsunami forces acting on coastal and harbor structures. In this study, a practical prediction of tsunami forces is carried out by using a two-dimensional numerical model.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.391-405
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• 2015

A global tsunami prediction system was suggested for a distant tsunami using a finite fault model and a cyclic boundary condition. The possibility of the suggested system as a distant tsunami response system was checked by applying it into the case of 2014 Chile tsunami. A comparison between the numerical results(tsunami height and arrival time) with different conditions (boundary condition, governing equation, grid size and fault model) and measured data (DART buoy, tide station) showed the importance of the finite fault model and the cyclic boundary condition.