Disturbance of Shallow Marine Soft-Bottom Environments and Megabenthos Assemblages by a Huge Tsunami Induced by the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake

Koji Seike; Kotaro Shirai; Yukihisa Kogure

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065417

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Disturbance of Shallow Marine Soft-Bottom Environments and Megabenthos Assemblages by a Huge Tsunami Induced by the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake

Koji Seike ,

* E-mail: seike@aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
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Kotaro Shirai,

Affiliation Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
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Yukihisa Kogure

Affiliation Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
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Disturbance of Shallow Marine Soft-Bottom Environments and Megabenthos Assemblages by a Huge Tsunami Induced by the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake

Koji Seike,
Kotaro Shirai,
Yukihisa Kogure

Published: June 7, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065417

About the Authors

Koji Seike

* E-mail: seike@aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Affiliation Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Kotaro Shirai

Affiliation Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Yukihisa Kogure

Affiliation Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: K. Seike K. Shirai YK. Performed the experiments: K. Seike K. Shirai YK. Analyzed the data: K. Seike K. Shirai YK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: K. Seike K. Shirai YK. Wrote the paper: K. Seike K. Shirai YK. Performed the field survey: K. Seike K. Shirai YK.

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