Introduction The Persian Gulf is one of the most important oil tanker highways in the world, which has been protected from waves induced by tropical storms and tsunamis over the past few decades (El-Sabh and Murty, 1989; Al-Hajri, 1990; Lin and Emanuel, 2016). Although the easterly coastal region in Iran is more susceptible to tsunami by active faults in the Indian Ocean, there is no major earthquake fault in the Persian Gulf region that can produce large tsunami (Ambraseys, 2008).
