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Davies, G. | Griffin, J.
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Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment (PTHA) often proceeds by constructing a suite of hypothetical earthquake scenarios, and modelling their tsunamis and occurrence-rates. Both tsunami and occurrence-rate models are affected by the representation of earthquake slip and rigidity, but the overall importance of these factors for far-field PTHA is unclear. We study the sensitivity of an Australia-wide PTHA to six different far-field earthquake scenario representations, including two rigidity models (constant and depth-varying) combined with three slip models: fixed-area-uniform-slip (with rupture area deterministically related to magnitude); variable-area-uniform-slip; and spatially heterogeneous-slip. Earthquake-tsunami scenarios are tested by comparison with DART-buoy tsunami observations, demonstrating biases in some slip models. Scenario occurrence-rates are modelled using Bayesian techniques to account for uncertainties in seismic coupling, maximum-magnitudes and Gutenberg-Richter b-values. The approach maintains reasonable consistency with the historical earthquake record and spatially variable plate convergence rates for all slip/rigidity model combinations, and facilitates partial correction of model-specific biases (identified via DART-buoy testing). The modelled magnitude exceedance-rates are tested by comparison with rates derived from long-term historical and paleoseismic data and alternative moment-conservation techniques, demonstrating the robustness of our approach. The tsunami hazard offshore of Australia is found to be insensitive to the choice of rigidity model, but significantly affected by the choice of slip model. The fixed-area-uniform-slip model produces lower hazard than the other slip models. Bias adjustment of the variable-area-uniform-slip model produces a strong preference for `compact' scenarios, which compensates for a lack of slip heterogeneity. Thus, both heterogeneous-slip and variable-area-uniform-slip models induce similar far-field tsunami hazard.
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