Modeling future earthquake and tsunami risk in southeast Japan

Modeling future earthquake and tsunami risk in southeast Japan 04/04/2018 06:30 PM EDT Geoscience researchers at UMass Amherst, Smith College and the Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology 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. Full story at http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/modeling-future-earthquake-and-tsunami Source University of Massachusetts at Amherst This is an NSF News From the Field item. Follow NSF:  This email was sent using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: National Science Foundation Update · 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314 · 703-292-5111