Developing a probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment framework for Pacific sources: USGS Powell Center meeting summary

Environmental & Engineering Geoscience
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Multi-organizational principal investigators formed a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Powell Center Working Group (WG), Tsunami Source Standardization for Hazards Mitigation in the United States, to develop a comprehensive series of sources capable of generating tsunamis that could impact U.S. state and territory coastal areas using probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis (PTHA). PTHA results are commonly used to provide consistent tsunami hazard information for use in engineering and risk assessment and, to a lesser extent, hazard response planning. Following an initial weeklong planning meeting in April 2018, designed to establish the WG’s scope, a series of weeklong meetings devoted to aspects of tsunami hazards placed emphasis on assessment of various tsunami sources, including subduction zones in Alaska, the Atlantic and Caribbean, Cascadia, and the Pacific Basin, as well as landslides in Alaska, the Atlantic, and the Caribbean. The final meeting in the series discussed tsunami sources from crustal faults. These meetings, each with a regional geographic focus, were designed to incorporate reviews and feedback from subject matter experts (SMEs) in academia, private industry, and federal, state, and local governmental organizations. Incorporating consensus from SMEs is important because the results derived from the tsunami source models will be used to inform the public about potential hazards from tsunamis related to safety concerns. This paper describes the USGS Powell Center meeting in March 2023, devoted specifically to developing a PTHA for tsunami sources in the Pacific Ocean Basin other than the Alaska–Aleutian and Cascadia subduction zones that were addressed during previous WG meetings.

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Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Developing a probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment framework for Pacific sources: USGS Powell Center meeting summary
Series title Environmental & Engineering Geoscience
DOI 10.21663/EEG-D-24-00034
Volume 31
Issue 1
Publication Date February 17, 2025
Year Published 2025
Language English
Publisher Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists
Contributing office(s) Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Description 10 p.
First page 67
Last page 76
Other Geospatial Pacific Ocean
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