The recent great earthquakes of 26 December 2004 (Sumatra, Indonesia, Mw 9.2), 26 February 2010 (Maule, Chile, Mw 8.8), and 11 March 2011 (Tohoku-oki, Japan, Mw 9.0) have once again brought to the forefront the urgent need for early tsunami warning. These warnings mostly rely on magnitude and location of an earthquake. A large/great magnitude subduction-zone earthquake with rupture area extending up to the trench is potentially a tsunamigenic event. The appropriate magnitudes for tsunami warning are those that are based on long-period seismic waves (Abe 1979), e.g., the moment magnitude, Mw (...
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