Tsunami Inundation
The process of developing the tsunami hazard profile used a deterministic approach together with numerical simulations to assess the level of threat posed to Sri Lanka by eight plausible earthquake scenarios in major subduction zones in the Indian Ocean (tsunamigenic geophysical scenarios). The analysis covered maximum offshore tsunami amplitudes (wave heights); tsunami arrival times; maximum near shore amplitudes (wave heights); and mapping of the distribution of the tsunami hazard inclusive of the probable extent of onshore inundation.
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