A global seismic hazard assessment was conducted using the probabilistic approach in conjunction with a modified means of evaluating the seismicity parameters. The earthquake occurrence rate function was formulated for area source cells from recent instrumental earthquake catalogs. For the...

The coastal areas of Japan were hard hit by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake on 11 March 2011. The earthquake triggered a disastrous tsunami over the area which led to massive destruction. In this paper, tsunami-induced changes in Soma, Watari, Natori and Iwanuma areas using Landsat 7 ETM+ and EO-1...