Assessing Potential Tsunami Hazards in Colombia

Abstract eng:
An international project was launched between Japan and Colombia, focusing on the application of state of the art technologies to strengthen research and response to seismic, volcanic and tsunami events, and enhance risk management in Colombia. This project so-called SATREPS ; the Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development started in 2008 jointly sponsored by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Under the leadership of Prof. Hiroyuki Kumagai, Nagoya University, 9 universities and research institutes joined the project both from Japan and Colombia and the project consists of 6 subteams ; earthquake, crustal deformation, volcano, strong motion, disaster information and tsunamis. We aim to report the overview of "tsunami" research group. Four institutes from Japan and four institutes (DIMAR, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, SGC, and UNGRD) join the team to accomplish the goal of "developing tsunami damage estimation and mitigation technologies in Colombia". This paper reports the preliminary outcomes throughout the project mainly focusing on tsunami propagation features and tsunami impacts along Pacific and the Caribbean coasts of Colombia with recent advances of tsunami inundation modeling.

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