Portal for Regional Estimation of Coastal tsunami Impacts using Sea-level and Earthquake information (PRECISE) is a tsunami forecasting tool developed by RIMES to determine tsunami arrival time, directivity, amplitudes and inundation.

PRECISE combines preliminary earthquake information: magnitude and epicenter location, with a pre-computed tsunami database to generate a comprehensive forecast with points along coasts that would be potentially affected. The system uses sea-level information obtained from DART buoys and tidal gauges to update and validate forecasts.

A unit-source database has been developed for the Sunda (Western Philippines) and Makran (Central Asia Region) subduction zones as they can generate destructive tsunamis in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. Since DART buoys and tidal gauges have been installed and upgraded after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, near real-time data from the sea-level sensors can be used to revise fault parameters of an earthquake by using inverse analysis. The inundation forecast is performed using the nonlinear TUNAMI model at some key coastal sites. Results from simulation are compiled in a bulletin format to distribute to countries.

 

Unit sources on the Sumatra and Western Philippines subduction zones
Unit sources on the Sumatra and Western Philippines subduction zones

 

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Interface of PRECISE

 

Tsunami travel time map
Tsunami travel time map

 

Tsunami directivity map
Tsunami directivity map