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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS002 Poster presentation 1823<br />

Physical Simulation of Drain Mechanism of Tsunami Generation<br />

Mr. Pavel Korolev<br />

Boris Levin<br />

As a result of 1999 Izmit earthquake a split sea and sinking of the water level were observed in Izmit<br />

Gulf. A cause of this effect may be cracks, breaks in the fault zone.Really great cracks with length tens<br />

kilometers and width some meters are occurred on the Earth surface in the time of strong earthquakes.<br />

Such kind of cracks were observed as a result of recent Neftegorsk (1995), Altai (2003) earthquakes in<br />

Russia.Not excluded that similar processes can occur on the sea bottom. As a result of water withdrawal<br />

tsunami could be generated.This process was simulated physically on the experimental water tank<br />

measuring 3.0 x 0.6 x 0.4 meters. In the central part of tank at the bottom there is a device with slots<br />

simulating cracks opening.Conditions of water waves generation depending on initial water depth, slots<br />

width, time of slots opening are ascertained.This work is supported by Russian Foundation for Basic<br />

Research, grant 07-05-00363, and Program of Leading Scientific Schools NSH 8043.2006.5.<br />

Keywords: tsunami generation, drain mechanism, simulation

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