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AU - Kirby, Stephen H. AU - Kalligeris, Nikos . There were widespread cracking of walls and numerous landslides. In 1933, an 8.4 magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami, causing widespread damage to towns on the Sanriku coast of the Tohoku region of …
These suggest bending and along-strike structural segmentation largely controls the horizontal and vertical extent of the fault. At Kailua-Kona a series of ten large waves were observed starting at 15:20. Hence, people on shore paid little attention to the mild shaking they experienced so there was little expectation of a tsunami, even though this part of the Japanese coast experiences earthquakes frequently.
The people remained with no homes, security and protection. Scales are arbitrary, but common to all plots within a period box.Results of relocations performed in this study.We derive here three theorems related to the moment tensor resulting from summing double-couples which share certain elements.Hawaiian Volcano Observatory seismogram of the Showa Sanriku earthquake. In other words, the 1933 Sanriku earthquake generated felt intensities on the Japanese mainland which would have been more characteristic, under scaling laws, of a much larger earthquake.
Ther was some damage. There was also some damage in Kaaluu.A great earthquake occurred on March 2, 1933 (UTC DATE) in the Sanriku region of Japan and generated a destructive tsunami that caused extensive damage along the Sanriku coast of the Tohoku region of the island of Honshu.©1982 - 2010 Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis - All rights reservedHatori T., Aida I, Koyama M and T. Hibiya, 1982. The off-trench earthquakes are distributed about 80 km width in the trench perpendicular direction. occurred on the Sanriku coast of the Tōhoku region of Honshū, Japan on March 2. At Ofunato the runup heights ranged from 2.0 to 2.5 meters and the damage to houses was not as great as at Akazaki where the waves ranged from 3.0 to 3.5 meters and destroyed 50 homes.At Napoopoo the water receded to 2.4 meters below mean sea level, rose to 2.9 meters (9.5 ft)and the total vertical range (double amplitude) was 5.3 meters. April 1 – opening of Inariyama-kōen Station Recent (2001–2012) seismicity in the 1933 of-trench source area relocated by the same method shows that the present seismicity in the off-trench region of northern Honshu can be divided into several groups of earthquakes along the trench; one group roughly corresponds to the locations of the off-trench aftershocks of the 1933 earthquake. Through a better understanding of the 1933 event, we also aim to gain further insight into the tsunami hazard posed by this class of shocks, of which the Showa Sanriku earthquake was the largest recorded.In this context, we wish to guard against probabilistic estimates of tsunami risk at subduction zones most often based on the examination of convergence rates and thus tacitly but inescapably excluding the contribution of intraplate earthquakes, including large normal-faulting events, for which no reliable estimate of recurrence times is available. The improvements of hypocentre locations using these methods were confirmed by the examination of recent earthquakes that are accurately located based on ocean bottom seismometer data. It was in approximately the same location as the 1896 Sanriku earthquake and it occurred far enough away from the town that shaking did little damage. The depth extent for this largest outer rise/outer-trench-slope earthquake also provides a constraint on the stress state of the subducting plate and the water transported to deep Earth into the subducting slab.For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual subscription.Comparison of the relocated 1933 aftershock epicentres and recent seismicity. Its epicenter was ninety miles offshore, near an area of very deep water known as the Japan Trench, where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Asian Plate. Bull. March 2 – 1933 Sanriku earthquake. These findings imply that bending geometry and structural segmentation of the incoming plate largely controls the spatial extent of the 1933 seismogenic faulting. 165 Accesses. PY - 2016/1/1. Relocated epicentre of the main shock (cross) is from global stations. Comparison of the 1933 rupture dimensions based on our relocations with the morphologies of fault scarps in the outer trench slope suggest that the rupture was largely limited to the region where fault scarps are trench parallel and cross cut seafloor spreading fabric. The earthquake from March 2, 1933, led to many damages and 3000 victims.
(a) Epicentre distribution of recent earthquakes from October 2001 to 2011 March 10 (circle). However we consider these cases do not affect the polarity of the initial tsunami wave that is a reliable feature for both observation and modelling by compound rupture model.Additional Supporting Information may be found in the online version of this paper:The aftershock distribution of the 1933 Sanriku-oki outer trench earthquake is estimated by using modern relocation methods and a newly developed velocity structure to examine the spatial extent of the source-fault and the possibility of a triggered interplate seismicity.