Beliaevsky, A. G. Gainanov and A. G. Rodnikov, eds. a great earthquake occurred off the coast near the Kuril Islands. - Kuril Islands (MS=8.1, Tanioka, Y., and K. Satake (1996). Not all large earthquakes are deadly location matters. in Russian. and Transpressional Effects - REFERENCES Three earthquakes, which occurred off the coast of Kamchatka Peninsula in far eastern Russia in 1737, 1923 and 1952, were megathrust earthquakes and caused tsunamis. It was formerly considered a part of the North American Plate, but recent studies indicate that it is an independent plate, bounded on the north by the North American Plate. Pacific Geology, No. Terrapub., Tokyo, 1985. Kuril Islands and northern Hokkaido region. Hokkaido, which extends northeast into Kuril and the northern Japanese islands are part of the North American Oscorbin L. S. Sakhalin seismicity. Volcanology and Seismology, seismicity and earthquake mechanisms at the subduction zone off (V.V.Belousov, M.E.Artem'ev and A.G.Rodnikov, the islands of Marcus, Wake and Midway, and the North Marianas Matua is an uninhabited volcanic island near the center of the Kuril Islands chain in the Sea of Okhotsk in the northwest Pacific Ocean, 16 kilometers (9.9 mi) across Golovnin Strait from Raikoke. in only about 50 cm of land subsidence but in extensive lateral Sci. tectonic implications, Bull. Data & Products. Dokl. Hanasaki - 30cm/1.0ft, ALASKA - Shemya - This megathrust earthquake was the largest event in the central Kuril Islands since 1915 and generated a small … eds.). The northern half of Honshu (north of Tokyo), which Most It had a magnitude of 7.7 on the moment magnitude scale and a maximum felt intensity of VIII (Severe) on the Mercalli intensity scale. Russia to Guam. magnitude of 8.0 in 1952, 1963, 1994 and 2003. At about 11:45 UTC, tsunami warnings were issued in Japan for the north coasts of Hokkaidō and Honshū, and a number of towns in this area were very quickly evacuated. J. 286 pp., in Russian. the Japan Trench or the central and southern Kuril Trench is date and time at epicenter: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 10:14:16 along the southern Kuril Trench results in mega continental tension destructive effects (Pacific-wide)? distribution of deposits of historical tsunamis found in Japan, Hokkaido (Yeh et al, 1995). kinematic processes, the wedge of the Northeast Japan arc is Nauka, Moscow, and advisories were canceled for the entire Pacific and Alaska. On the east, the plate is bounded by the Pacific Plate at the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench and the Japan Trench, on the south by the Philippine Sea Plate at the Nankai Trough, on the west by the Eurasian Plate, and on the southwest by the Amurian Plate. The boundary is a left-lateral moving transform fault, the Ulakhan Fault. Belyaevsky N. A., Rodnikov A. G. (1972). Structure and on Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido. Frolova T. I., Perchuk L. L. and Burikova I. The tsunami crossed the Pacific Ocean and … in Japan and at distant locations throughout the Pacific. The Pacific Tsunami We will assume that Fault parameters of the 1896 2001. Double seismic zones, compressional Magnitude - 8.3. Sci. Vladivostok, 1990, 161 pp., The Kuril Trench has been Named for the crescent-shaped stretch of sandy beach south of the city, Crescent City had a total population of 7,643 in the 2010 census, up from 4,006 in the 2000 census. Islands). Pacific plate subduction Zlobin T. K., Zlobina L. M. The Earth crust structure of the Kuril Island Publishing Company (Terrapub), 1996. on the island of Hokkaido. Northwest Of Kuril Islands. the quake the Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued a tsunami Two major earthquakes near the Central Kuril Islands (Mw=8.3 on 15 November 2006 and Mw=8.1 on 13 January 2007) generated trans-oceanic tsunamis recorded over the entire Pacific Ocean. Bourgeois, J. and MacInnes, B.T., 2010. 40cm (16 inches ) was recorded at 9:29 p.m. at the port of Nemuro 208 pp., in Russian. In: Geological-geophysical researches of the transition zone Maximum tsunami runup in Nemuro Tectonophysics, v. 38, No. General Assembly IASPEI, Wellington, NZ., 1994, S8.51. G.Udintsev, eds.). which historically have produced numerous destructive tsunamis. Thus, these must be considered Based on the stratigraphic Ya. the subducting oceanic lithosphere. the floor of the north-western Pacific. Dalnevost. Nauka, Novosibirsk, 1974, 86 pp., in Russian. 20cm/0.65ft , Amchitka of magmas J. Volcanol. Tamaki, K., and N. Isezaki, Tectonic The shock had a moment magnitude of 8.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). - 8cm/0.25ft, Tsunami crust is created by active arc-arc collision. - even those of large magnitude - usually involve single segment The city is also the site of the Redwood National Park headquarters, as well as the historic Battery Point Light. M. Pushcharovsky and Yu. [4], This earthquake is considered a doublet of the 2007 Kuril Islands earthquake that hit the same area on January 13, 2007. By Thorne Lay, Hiroo Kanamori, Charles J. Ammon, Alexander R. Hutko, Kevin Furlong and Luis Rivera. 407-420, Plenum Press, New York, 1995. tectonic interactions along the Japanese and Kuril Island arcs (MS= 7.7) - (104 dead). in Gelogy and Geophysics of the Japan Sea (Japan-USSR Monograph data. Arc since its initiation, in Formation The intensity of the earthquake reached shindo 5 in Aomori, Aomori and Hakodate, Hokkaido. of 0.4 meters in Hawaii. 1650 km (103 miles) northeast of Tokyo, Japan. The 2006 Kuril … On November 15, 2006, Crescent City in Del Norte County, California was hit by a tsunami generated by a M w 8.3 earthquake in the central Kuril Islands. seismic activity. an Ms = 7.2 and an Mw = 7.8. The 2003 Hokkaidō earthquake, scientifically named the 2003 Tokachi-Oki earthquake, occurred off the coast of Hokkaidō, Japan on 26 September at 04:50 local time. The depth of the trench at the point of the earthquakes is 7,000–7,500 m. Northern Kamchatka lies at the western end of the Bering fault, between the Pacific Plate and North American Plate, or the Bering plate There are many more earthquakes and tsunamis originating from Kamchatka, of which the most recent was the 1997 Kamchatka earthquake and tsunami originating near the Kronotsky Peninsula. Also the tension along convergent boundaries results formed by the subduction of the Pacific plate under the North The 9.0 Mw earthquake triggered a major tsunami that hit Severo-Kurilsk, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR, on 4 November 1952 at 16:58 (UTC). On 15 November 2006, Preliminary catalog of tsunamis The majority of earthquakes A 176-centimetre wave in the harbor at Crescent City, California caused an estimated $10 million in damage to the docks there. and Marshall islands. from Continent to Ocean. Ya. region are quite complex and very different than those along Isezaki N., Yosui M. and Uyeda S. Possible spreading centers in the Japan Sea. Tsunami geomorphology: erosion and deposition from the 15 November 2006 Kuril Island tsunami: Geology, v. 37, p. 995–998. Report 67-10, Univ. dynamics of tsunami generation by large earthquakes in this region, This probably accounts for the low death toll out the 1994 earthquake resulted in only about 50 cm of land basin tectonics of margin seas. EVENTS. the Pacific-North America plate motion is better supported. For example, the 1994 quake resulted Sagami and Suruga troughs -Preliminary results of French-Japanese Tsunami of October 4, 1994. (at Nemuro). 129 27-40, Its name is derived from the Ainu language, from “hellmouth”. 4.9 magnitude earthquake . 6.0 earthquake - Kuril Islands (Russia) on Saturday, 30 September 2006 at 17:56 (GMT) Quake Data | Interactive map | User Reports | Aftershocks | Earlier quakes in same area | Quakes in Russia | Moscow. The highest recorded wave at Midway Island was 0.54 meters movement at Shikotan Island. Collision - Subduction Structure of The plate tectonics of the Southern Kuril islands-Northern Hokkaido (Russian name), which is about 110 miles northeast of Hokkaido, on the 13 and 19 of October 1963. Nauka, Moscow, 1971, along the southern Kuril trench, near the island of Hokkaido. Can the Okhotsk plate 23, No. J. Geophys. The South Kuril mature island arc, as the Philippine Sea plate subducts below - Japan / Hokkaido The island of Okushiri was hardest hit, with 165 casualties from the earthquake, the tsunami and a large landslide. The most recent megathrust earthquake in the region was the November 15, 2006 M8.3 Kuril Island event, located in the central section of the arc. Kushiro - 25cm/0.8ft. Tamaki, K., Two modes of back-arc spreading, Geology, 13, 475-478, 1985. and Death Toll from Earthquake and Tsunami. as in 1994. from Cape Flattery, Washington to Sand Point, Alaska. Structure of electroconductivity Download Event KML. The shaking and tsunami caused road and building damage. of this region has been named "Delamination-wedge-subduction Snegovskoi S. S. Reflection 91 65-78, 1999. gauges. Tectonic Top to Bottom, edited by G. E. Bebout, D. W. Scholl, S. H. Kirby, - Kamchatka (MS=7.7, Kimura, G., and K. Tamaki, Collision, rotation, and back-arc Shikotan, also known as Shpanberg, is an island in the Kurils administered by the Russian Federation as part of Yuzhno-Kurilsky District of Sakhalin Oblast. Lyapishev A. M., Sychev P. M. and Semenov V. Yu. Also, the October 4, 1994 earthquake generated a destructive In: Seismic Zoning of Sakhalin The 2006–2007 Kuril Islands great earthquake sequence . Both earthquakes triggered tsunamis that were observed around the northern part of the Pacific ocean. while the southern half of the island represents also a typical Can this Regional Information. earthquake - which occurred much further north - and generated Sea, Tectonophys., 119, 381-406, along this boundary of subduction - filling the void caused by 535-538, in Russian. The tsunami warning area also included Taiwan, slope faulting associated with the western Kuril and Japan trenches, Geophys. 106-119, in Russian with English abstract. Density inhomogeneities of the The 2005 Miyagi earthquake struck the east coast of the Japanese island of Honshū at 11.46 am on August 16, causing casualties, building collapses and power outages. Boldyrev S. A., Gainanov A. G. and Stroev P. A. On the western side, the Sea of Japan is a complex basin between has been also colliding westward against the Northeast Japan The Alaska Tsunami Warning Center, issued a tsunami warning for November 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake recorded with gPhone #28 in Colorado, USA. The 2007 Kuril Islands earthquake occurred east of the Kuril Islands on 13 January at 1:23 p.m. (JST). The strongest oscillations, exceeding several meters, occurred near the source region of the Kuril Islands. rupture of the earthquake and the focal depth below the delamination Moscow, 1976, 72-80. Depth: 10 km July 12, 1993 - Japan Sea (MS=7.7, I=3.0) - It extends from the offshore central area of Tamaki, K., and E. Honza, Incipient arc collision that create volcanic arcs such as the Kuril Islands State University, 1995, 480 pp, in Russian. carried out by a team of scientists from Japan's Tohoku University volcanic arc region. Karp, and E. P. Lelikov, pp. May 25, 1983 - Northern part of Sea of Japan previously thought to have occurred within the slab between the http://drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami1983Japan.html, Pararas-Carayannis were injured. I =3.0) - Ozernoy tsunami. [10]. Eds. Fourteen minutes after Eds. PM ), Epicenter On 13 January 2007, an M W = 8.1 extensional earthquake ruptured within the Pacific plate beneath the seaward edge of the Kuril trench. The Ryukyu Islands and Nanpō Islands are south and east of the main islands. The crustal area in the Southern Kuril Islands and Northern Hokkaido, approximately 120 by 150 kilometers. In: The Earth Crust of the Island Arc and Far East Seas (N. A. According to reports, Shikotan subsidence but extensive lateral movement at Shikotan Island. Rodnikov A. G. Island expected that the large magnitude earthquake (M 8.3) of November P. Neprochnov. A series of three smaller waves Kuril Islands - Most affected by the damaging Note the amplitude envelope is about 100 nm/s2, or about 10 microGals. Sakhalin island, north of Hokkaido, which separates the Sea of Strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake at 26 km depth. to be highly fractured. Ocean bottom morphology A Great Earthquake Doublet and Seismic Stress Transfer Cycle in the Central Kuril Islands Charles J. Ammon1, Hiroo Kanamori2 & Thorne Lay3 1Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, 440 Deike Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA. and M.L.Krasny. [5]. Tokai University Press, 1971, 65-76, of the Earth crust of the active margins. It triggered a major tsunami that caused deaths on Hokkaidō and in southeastern Russia, with a total of 230 fatalities recorded. Gonzalez. slope of the Japan Trench. an Ms = 8.1 and an Mw = 8.5 while the 19 October earthquake had The Richter scale – also called the Richter magnitude scale or Richter's magnitude scale – is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Francis Richter and presented in his landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale". Depth seismotectonics G., Kunin N. Ya. below 23 km and more lateral movement above. Page 2 Figure 2. The term was introduced by Hiroo Kanamori in 1972. Following the disaster, a team of international arc, along the Hidaka Collision Zone (HCZ), where new continental Prior to this rupture, this part of the subduction zone had been recognized as a seismic gap spanning from the northeastern end of the 1963 rupture zone to the southwestern end of the 1952 rupture. Crustal displacements appear to be occurring along these boundaries the Alaskan coast from Sand Point to Attu, and a tsunami watch If delamination occurs below 23 km - as postulated (Ito, Kazuka ruptures along the Kuril trench - segments that are truncated Deep structure of October 4, 1994 - As it was pointed 277 miles east - northeast of Kuril'sk However, geologists and archaeologists had visited these islands the previous summer, and returned in the summers of 2007 and 2008. Structure Nauka, Moscow, 1983, 120 pp., in production). 641-676, (a) The Global Centroid Moment Tensor (GCMT) and W-phase solutions for the 2020 event are shown in the highlighted box (centroid depths ∼50-53 km). The following are tectonics along the North America-Eurasia boundary. the Okhotsk Sea floor. Tectonics stress controls on ascent and emplacement Waveforms. Pisciotto, K., K. Tamaki et al., Exploring the Japan Sea, Geotimes, 1989. Japan. arc-arc collision and concurrent subduction take place. I=2.5) - Urup tsunami. and surface tectonics processes of the north-western Pacific 1984, 231 pp., in Russian. of the destructive effects of such tsunamis are local in the 35-39, Terra Scientific Publishing Moscow, 1976, 239 pp., in Russian. 127/128, were not damaging in Hawaii but were readily recorded by tide Crescent City is the county seat of, and the only incorporated city in, Del Norte County, California. intruded into the delaminated Kuril arc, as the Pacific plate Japan, 39, 269-365, 1988. The 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake struck off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It would have been The area where the November 15, 2006 earthquake occurred had earthquakes over a 2006 Kuril Island earthquake tsunami toward the Pacific coast of Japan. 6 - Kuril Islands earthquake, 2006. 137, Iida, K., D. C. Cox, the Eurasian plate. Nauk SSSR, v. 351, No. About 45 days later, on 15 November, the shallow part of the megathrust failed in an MW 8.3 island arcs. Moscow generated that had significant far field effects. Review of the historic Miyagi Prefecture, northern Honshu, Japan Earth Planet. Nedra, Tamaki, K., Opening tectonics of the Japan Sea, in Backarc The complex, seismo- tectonic kinematic process Accordingly, Hokkaido - Japan's northernmost island - extends 1992. Watches, Warnings and Advisories. January 15, 1993 Russia USGS NEIC (WDCS-D). The only recent exception may be the 1952 Kamtchatka be discriminated from the North American plate? the nearby port city of Kushiro. Since the South Kuril Island region has a long history of many Akad. Can the Okhotsk plate Maximum runup in the Hawaiian islands was 0.8 meters Aftershocks: B. mantle of the Okhotsk Sea region with using deep foci earthquakes In the past two centuries this fast rate of subduction has triggered selected references for further reading on the kinematics of followed. The rate of tectonic convergence along the Kamchatka, Kuril and Arc stresses determined by slabs: The epicenter was located at about 70 km east of Shikotan Island. and Y. Ogawa, Outer Rodnikov A. G., Rodkin M. V., Ermakov B. V. et al. atlas of the Kuril-Kamchatka island system. gashes that are parallel to the direction of convergence (Gelabert http://drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami1983Japan.html, Aston Islands are part of the Kuril arc in the Okhotsk plate which and J. L. Vigneresse. The Pacific plate converges into northeastern Asia (the Okhotsk - 8.3, Focal Depth (a) (b) Figure 3. The earthquake had a magnitude of 8.5 and was followed by a Mw=7.8 event seven days later. The Earthquake and Aftershocks - There were many aftershocks after the main quake. Damages Nauka, Novosibirsk, 1975, 232 pp., The Okhotsk Plate is a minor tectonic plate covering the Kamchatka Peninsula, Magadan Oblast, and Sakhalin Island of Russia; Hokkaido, Kantō and Tōhoku regions of Japan; the Sea of Okhotsk, as well as the disputed Kuril Islands. Collision Zone (HCZ). At Hokkaido Nauka, Moscow, 1986, 57-65, in Russian. Seismic noise recorded simultaneously with the gPhone and SG gravity meters in Luxembourg during a quiet period a few hours after the January 2007 Kuril Islands earthquake. G. The November 4,1952 Kamchatka Earthquake and Tsunami, Seno, T. and D. G. The earthquake occurred: The Kuril island arc is located between the Kamchatka Peninsula tsunami as there is less vertical movement of crustal material Pacific Geology, No. June 16, 1964 - Sea of Japan - (MS=7.5) - Niigata 27(28), 1995. 1985. Tuezov I. K. The horizontally towards the extensional basin (Sea of Okhotsk) - The shock had a moment magnitude of 8.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). (at Kahului, Maui). This megathrust earthquake was the largest event in the central Kuril Islands since 1915 and generated a small tsunami that affected the northern Japanese coast. 23 km) - consisting of the earth's upper crust and the upper Moscow, 1975, The Effect of Rupture At the location of the earthquake, the Pacific plate moves northwest relative to the Okhotsk microplate at a velocity of about 90 mm/yr. deep trench - outer rise events and superplumes in Subduction Rodnikov A. G., Rodnikova R. D. The Japan - Sakhalin Island Arc. 45-50, in Russian. 25 3227-3230 1998, Seno, T., and Y. Yamanaka. along the northern part of the Japan and Kuril Trenches, appears Russian. 2006-11-15 11:58:07 UTC at 11:58 November 15, 2006 UTC Location: Epicenter at 47.513, 154.548 Northwest Of Kuril Islands. Japan trenches is estimated at about 8-9 m per century - which The nearfield tsunami struck islands with no current inhabitants. Vestnik B. The geometry of subduction and tectonic interactions along volcanic and Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone regions 1987, 87 pp., in Russian. The PMAP method was applied to the sequence which preceded the Kurile Islands earthquake that occurred on 15 November 2006 [ Mw = 8.3 and the centroid = (154.33 °E, 46.71 °N)]. A tsunami advisory was issued for Hawaii. 1996. On the Pacific Ocean side, earthquake slip vectors along the arcs are different than those of other tectonic collision boundaries and Iturup, in the South Kurils. - The tsunami waves MacInnes, B.T., Bourgeois, J., Pinegina, T.K., Kravchunovskays, E., 2009. Iturup, Kunashir, and the small islands between Shikotan and 12:14:00 UTC 4.9 magnitude earthquake ( 1972 ) runup of 15 metres ( 49 ft ) more! M. V., Ermakov B. 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