3 津波工学研究報告第 30 号（2013）/ Report of Tsunami Engineering Vol.30 （2013） 3 ～ 17 A summary of the rapid response and analysis of tsunamis in 2012 (from April 2012 to March 2013) Anawat Suppasri ＊ , Abdul Muhari ＊ , Muzailin Affan ＊＊ and Fumihiko Imamura ＊ ＊ International Research Institute of Disaster Science,Tohoku University ＊＊ Unsyiah University 1. Introduction Twelve earthquake generated tsunami events presented in the global historical tsunami data- base (NGDC, 2013) during April 2012 and March 2013. In this period, the earthquake magnitudes varied from 6.3 to 8.6, and the measured tsuna- mis were up to 3 m. In this report, we summarize our rapid analysis of four major tsunami events occurring in 2012 (from April 2012 to March 2013), namely, Sumatra tsunami, Indonesia (11 th April 2012), Queen Charlotte tsunami, Canada (28 th October 2012), Miyagi Sea tsunami, Japan (7 th December 2012) and Santa Cruz Islands, and Solomon Islands (6 th February 2013), as shown in Fig. 1 and Table 1. These rapid analyses were conducted to provide information regarding the predicted areas that potentially experienced dam- age and where emergency response may be ur- gently needed. Additionally, we aim to estimate whether the above events have impacted the area of Japan. Among them, the last event in the Santa Cruz Islands was the only event that caused dam- age in local areas, including ten deaths. These results were published soon after the event on the Tsunami Engineering Laboratory homepage (http://www.tsunami.civil.tohoku.ac.jp/hokusai3/ E/index.html). For each tsunami event, we summarized the news, impact information, fault type and param- eters and the simulated tsunamis. Even though these rapid analyses consist of the preliminary results of numerical simulations, this approach is capable of determining the complexity of recent tsunamis. In this fiscal year, our team, those who participated and performed the analyses, includes research staff and students belonging to the In- ternational Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, as shown in Table 2. Fig. 1 Major tsunami events in fiscal year 2012 (From April 2012 to March 2013) (Figure source: USGS (2013))