Scientific meeting of experts for coordinated scenario analysis of future tsunami events and hazard mitigation schemes for the South China Sea region

16 - 18 November 2015,

Xiamen
Fujian province,
China



Agenda



1 Paleoseismology and historic events in the South China Sea region and Philippines Trench
1.1 Seismicity characteristics in the South China Sea region and its tectonic significances, Zhiguo Xu
1.2 Tsunami events recorded in China historical document and the field investigation of possible paleo-tsunami in South China Sea, Honglin He - Shi Feng
1.3 What caused the mysterious eighteenth century tsunami that struck the southwest Taiwan coast? Linlin Li, Adam D. Switzer, Yu Wang, Robert Weiss, Qiang Qiu, Chung-Han Chan, and Paul Tapponnier
1.4 Realistic scenarios for tsunami risk in the South China Sea, Emile Okal
2 Seismic studies and potential tsunamigenic sources in the South China Sea region
2.1 GEM global faulted earth database, Ken Gledhill (on behalf of GEM)
2.2 Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment in the SCS region, Ye Yuan, Hongwei Li
2.3 Estimation of hazard parameters for potential tsunamigenic sources in the South China Sea region, Phuong Hong Nguyen
3 Technical/Scientific development of tsunami modelling for the South China Sea region, including key parameters
3.1 Probabilistic tsunami hazard zonation in the coastal area of China, Ruizhi Wen & Yefei Ren
3.2 Dispersion effects on tsunami propagation in the South China Sea region, Hua Liu
3.3 Recent research results on tsunami hazard associated with the scenario earthquakes along the Manila trench, Philip L-F. Liu, Tso-Ren Wu
3.4 Modeling of Tsunami Generation, Propagation, and Inundation with a Non-hydrostatic Model, Kwok Fai Cheung
3.5 American Society of Civil Engineers approach for the probabilistic tsunami assessment and implications for the South China Sea, Yong Wei
3.6 Real time tsunami warning skills in the South China Sea region, Fujiang Yu, Peitao Wang
3.7 Effect of fault slip heterogeneity on the coastal impact of tsunami and its implication in the South China Sea region, Xiaoming Wang, Christof Mueller, William Power and Charles Williams
3.8 Reviewing tsunami fragility curves and its application for the South China Sea countries, Anawat Suppasri
4 Break-out Groups
4.1 Earthquake based scenarios – key parameters and geometry of the faults
4.2 Land-slide tsunami potential – coastal areas to be prioritised for local preparedness
4.3 Tsunami modelling – datasets inventory for topography and bathymetry, priority gaps
5 Summary session – breakout groups reports and recommendations