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Table 1 Summary of maximum inundation distances and heights within the studied areas

From: Sedimentary diversity of the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami deposits on the Sendai coastal plain and the northern coast of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Area

Maximum inundation distance (km)

Maximum inundation height (m)

Onuma and Arahama

5.3

19.7

Natori

5.3

13.1

Watari

4.3

8.6

Yamamoto

3.5

10.3

Suijin-numa

2.1

13.5

Shinchi

2.2

8.7

Odaka

2.1

12.2

  1. Maximum inundation distances are based on the “1:100,000 tsunami flood area overview map” on the GSI Web site (Nakajima and Koarai 2011), and heights are according to The Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami Joint Survey Group (2011) and Mori et al. (2012)