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Original Articles

Distribution of inundation by the great tsunami of the 2011 Mw 9.0 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku (Japan), as revealed by ALOS imagery data

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Pages 7073-7086 | Received 02 Aug 2011, Accepted 06 Aug 2011, Published online: 28 Sep 2011

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