Calculation of the initial elevation at the tsunami source using analytical solutions.

We have obtained an analytical solution to the problem of determining the initial elevation at the tsunami source, which was formed by small residual deformations of a flat sloping bottom. This solution, which is newly derived, is compared with the known analytical solution of an equivalent problem over a horizontal bottom. It is shown that applying an analytical solution over a horizontal bottom for calculating the initial perturbations in the sources of realistic tsunami provides sufficient accuracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]