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Conclusion
[18] The data of observations in the Bay of Corinth indicate that, in the place of
the landslide origin, water first receded from the shore and then returned,
producing a run-up of 5-6 m. The numerical simulation of the tsunami wave run-up
performed in this study showed that estimates obtained after the generation and
propagation of the wave to the isobath
x = -200 m agree well with observational
data, thereby supporting the validity of the numerical schemes chosen in this
study. Moreover, as was shown by
Jiang and LeBlond [1993, 1994],
who considered viscous and viscoplastic models of a landslide and solved this problem
in a long-wave approximation for both the landslide and the generated wave, the
generated wave first recedes from the shoreline at the initial time moment of
the landslide movement, after which an elevation wave starts forming. Thus, the
solution patterns obtained by
Jiang and LeBlond [1993, 1994]
and in our work are qualitatively similar; however, the analysis of the landslide movement
in terms of an elastoplastic model, incorporating real data on sediments at the landslide
origin and taking into account the strength reduction in the ground during the
development of plastic deformations, provides the most correct (at present time)
results of numerical simulation of tsunami wave generation and propagation and
run-up values fitting better the available observational data.

Citation: Lobkovsky, L. I., R. Kh. Mazova, I. A. Garagash, and L. Yu. Kataeva (2006), Numerical simulation of the 7 February 1963 tsunami in the Bay of Corinth, Greece, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 8, ES5003, doi:10.2205/2006ES000210.
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