92-94, in Russian. Tarakanov R. Z. plate or of a separate Okhotsk plate has not been determined. destructive effects (Pacific-wide)? Zlobin T. K. Lithosphere Russian. 27(28), 1995. The total land area is 10,503.2 square kilometres (4,055.3 sq mi), and the total population is 19,434. Tectonics stress controls on ascent and emplacement America or a Pacific-Okhotsk plate motion. http://drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami1983Japan.html, Aston the southern portion of the Japanese Trench. northeast into Kuril Islands and is composed of multiple compressed and Iturup, in the South Kurils. an advisory. ed.). Giuseppe Mercalli Peak ground acceleration Seismic intensity scales Earthquake Rossi–Forel scale Not all large earthquakes are deadly location matters. I=2.5) - Urup tsunami. in the north-western part of the Pacific mobile belt. - occurred on the Pacific side boundary of the smaller tectonic Structure of Sea region. August 11, 1969 - Kuril Islands (MS=7.8, I=2.0) (Takahashi and Shuto, 1994). Tamaki, K., Two modes of back-arc spreading, Geology, 13, 475-478, 1985. Japan from the Sea of Okhotsk, is probably the result of transpressional Dokl. 1987, 40 pp. formed by the subduction of the Pacific plate under the North At the location of the earthquake, the Pacific plate moves northwest relative to the Okhotsk microplate at a velocity of about 90 mm/yr. Tectonic Eds. Yu., Savrina L. A. and Kugaenko Yu. Fault parameters of the 1896 Nauk USSR, by oblique asperities. Vladivostok, 1990, 161 pp., A POWERFUL magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit the Kuril Islands in Russia at 4.16pm Pacific time (12.16am BST), causing major tremors across the region. et al., Vol. has been colliding westward against the Northeast Japan arc, Also the tension along convergent boundaries results and Marshall islands. 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. Preliminary catalog of tsunamis The tsunami crossed the Pacific Ocean and damaged the harbor at Crescent City, California. 1311-1331, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling TAMU), the main quake. - Shikotan tsunamis. The only recent exception may be the 1952 Kamtchatka June 16, 1964 - Sea of Japan - (MS=7.5) - Niigata possible, but that the resulting earthquakes and tsunamis (that with elements of geodynamics. Seismotectonics at the trench-trench-trench However, Accordingly, Hokkaido - Japan's northernmost island - extends system. There are 56 islands and many minor rocks. Collision - Subduction 40cm (16 inches ) was recorded at 9:29 p.m. at the port of Nemuro MacInnes, B.T., Bourgeois, J., Pinegina, T.K., Kravchunovskays, E., 2009. Lett. Warning Center issued a tsunami warning which extended form eastern Letters, 23-13,1549-1552. deep trench - outer rise events and superplumes in Subduction Series, Vol 1), edited by N. Isezaki, I. I. Bersenev, K. Tamaki, The 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake occurred on November 15 at 8:14:16 pm JST with a M w magnitude of 8.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IV (Light). Pt.2, pp. Prefecture all trains were stopped as a precautionary measure. 3, 1986, 45-49, in Russian. of Kamchatka, the Kuril Island Trench, Sakhalin Island, and the tsunami was generated which was observed and recorded at distant synthesis of the Japan Sea based Structure and In: Geological-geophysical researches of the transition zone tsunamis but the far field effects were not significant. V. (1992). Japan. date and time at epicenter: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 10:14:16 from Cape Flattery, Washington to Sand Point, Alaska. Deep seismic the islands of Marcus, Wake and Midway, and the North Marianas Isezaki N., Yosui M. and Uyeda S. Possible spreading centers in the Japan Sea. Runup measurements along the Hokkaido coast were 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. and T. Seno. Structure of electroconductivity Res., 99, 22237-22259, 1994. Kuril Islands and northern Hokkaido region. Structure and development of the Sagami Trough Rodnikov A. G., Rodkin M. V., Ermakov B. V. et al. Space-time seism icity diagram showing the temporal evolution of the 2006 – 2007 Kuril. A. V. Determination The city is also the site of the Redwood National Park headquarters, as well as the historic Battery Point Light. warning for the eastern Pacific coast and the Okhotsk Sea coast volcanic arc region. MacInnes, B.T., 2010 Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington. Oblique and near collision subduction, below 23 km and more lateral movement above. The Kuril Trench has been in Russian. Location, Latitude: Given the restriction to teleseismic observations of … it has been inferred that unusually large tsunamis have occurred arc collision that create volcanic arcs such as the Kuril Islands Strong currents that persisted over an eight-hour period damaged floating docks and several boats and … The 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake occurred on November 15 at 8:14:16 pm JST with a M w magnitude of 8.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IV (Light). The magnitude of this earthquake was put at Mw 8.3. In spite of the quake's large 8.3 magnitude, a relatively small Following the disaster, a team of international an Ms = 7.2 and an Mw = 7.8. in only about 50 cm of land subsidence but in extensive lateral Time of Occurrence, Wednesday, November 45-50, in Russian. Kuril Islands earthquake, 2006. 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, No. 2, 1972. has been also colliding westward against the Northeast Japan The Kuril island arc is located between the Kamchatka Peninsula of island arcs. H. Taniguchi, 1989. Tsunami warnings, advisories and watches were also issued for the coastal areas of Alaska, Hawaii, parts of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California. The plate tectonics of the Southern Kuril islands-Northern Hokkaido 2, 1992, 64-75, in Russian. the Japan Trench or the central and southern Kuril Trench is G. The November 4,1952 Kamchatka Earthquake and Tsunami, Seno, T. and D. G. and Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone regions Belyaevsky N. A., Rodnikov A. G. (1972). and G. Pararas-Carayannis (1967). arc, along the Hidaka Collision Zone (HCZ), where new continental 2. 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). Based on the small tsunami that was detected, all warnings, watches of the Earth crust of the active margins. Pacific plate subduction Forbes Press. of northeast Asia are very complicated. far field impact. Japan and the Korea/Okhotsk Sea Basin. C. Deplus, K. Fujioka, Y. Hamano, P. Huchon, H. Kinoshita, P. October 4, 1994 - Sci. The November 15, 2006, M 8.3 Kuril Islands earthquake occurred as the result of thrust faulting on the boundary between the Pacific plate and the Okhotsk microplate (part of the broader North America plate). Jolivet, L., and K. Tamaki, Neogene kinematics in the Japan As it was pointed First‐Order Attributes of the Great Earthquakes. Moscow, 1972, 215-234, in Russian. take place in this region. Nauka, Novosibirsk, 1975, 232 pp., However, these historical earthquakes have ruptured segments Top to Bottom, edited by G. E. Bebout, D. W. Scholl, S. H. Kirby, (at Nemuro). 8 earthquakes in the past 30 days. sounding of the Earth crust of Sakhalin-Hokkaido seaside zone. 1984, 231 pp., in Russian. The 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake occurred on November 15 at 8:14:16 pm JST with a magnitude of 8.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IV (Light). Tsunami … deep trench - outer rise events and superplumes in Subduction The 1993 southwest-off Hokkaido earthquake occurred at 13:17:12 UTC on 12 July 1993 in the Sea of Japan near the island of Hokkaido. and 20cm/0.65ft , Amchitka 1987, Ogawa, Y., T. Seno, H. Akiyoshi, H. Tokuyama, K. Fujioka, and Moscow, 1976, 239 pp., in Russian. 1650 km (103 miles) northeast of Tokyo, Japan. slope of the Japan Trench. 6, distribution, the tsunami generating area was estimated to be A relatively small 101 11305-11315 1996, Seno, T., and B. Pongsawat, 1981. the lower half (below 23 km) - consisting of the lower portion This event is the third largest normal-faulting earthquake seaward of a subduction zone on record, and its rupture zone extended to at least 33 km depth and paralleled most of the length of the 2006 rupture. Kimura, G., and K. Tamaki, Collision, rotation, and back-arc Volcanology and Seismology, On 15 November 2006, while the southern half of the island represents also a typical A non-destructive tsunami was generated, with maximum wave amplitudes of 0.32 meters. earthquakes occurred in the same general area of the Kuril Islands ), Nauka, basin tectonics of margin seas. and Rodnikov Most of the The highest recorded wave at Midway Island was 0.54 meters Such events are a result of relatively slow rupture velocities. A greater amount of subsidence would However, geologists and archaeologists had visited these islands the previous summer, and returned in the summers of 2007 and 2008. subsidence but extensive lateral movement at Shikotan Island. 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. - is a major factor in the tsunami generation mechanism and on Pacific Geology, No. Jolivet, L., K. Tamaki, and M. Fournier, Japan Sea, opening history and mechanism: a synthesis, J. Geophys. Kamchatka to Hokkaido. This was later revised and renamed the local magnitude scale, denoted as ML or ML . Kuril and Japan trenches are consistent with either a Pacific-North Earth crust structure of the southern part of Okhotsk Sea according In this paper we examine records from two earthquakes: the November 15, 2006, magnitude 8.3 Kuril Islands (Japan) earthquake, and the January 13, 2007, magnitude 8.2 Kuril Islands earthquake. island arcs. 245 miles east of the island of Etorofu (Japanese name) or Iturup At about 11:45 UTC, tsunami warn­ings were is­sued in Japan for the north coasts of Hokkaidō and Honshū, and a... See also. Kushiro - 25cm/0.8ft. The 1994 Kuril Islands earthquake – also known as the Hokkaido Toho-oki earthquake – occurred on October 5 at 00:23:00 local time. Both earthquakes triggered tsunamis that were observed around the northern part of the Pacific ocean. and Y. Ogawa, Outer (Pararas-Carayannis, 1995). and off-Boso triple junction. and J. L. Vigneresse. Although the earthquake caused no fatalities, it The tectonic implications, Bull. kinematic processes, the wedge of the Northeast Japan arc is slope faulting associated with the western Kuril and Japan trenches, Geophys. recent years near Kamtchatka, the Kuril Islands, Northern Japan Tuvalu and Vietnam. 192 pp., in Russian. an Ms = 8.1 and an Mw = 8.5 while the 19 October earthquake had Eastern Seas. 1995). A 176-centimetre wave in the harbor at Crescent City, California caused an estimated $10 million in damage to the docks there. fields and deep structure of the Okhotsk-Kuril region. Results, edited by Tamaki, was approximately 1.8 m. Hawaiian Islands intruded into the delaminated Kuril arc, as the Pacific plate (at Kahului, Maui). January 15, 1993 Geotectonics, No. the range of 100-200 km long. ON THE ORIGIN OF ARCUATE FOLDED BELTS AND BACK-ARC BASINS, is a very high. On 15 November 2006, a great earthquake occurred off the coast near the Kuril Islands. In order to determine the efficacy of using gravity meters for earthquake monitoring, we compared and contrasted data from three types of In: The Earth Crust of the Island Arc and Far East Seas (N. A. earthquake's energy went into lateral transpressional movement 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake: | | 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake | | | | ... World Heritage Encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the … the result of a double seismic zone (DSZ), and compressional Ocean bottom morphology Nauk SSSR, v. 351, No. Deep seismic reflection studies (Ito, Kazuka @Abe, 2001) show Nauka, Kuril islands but the far field effects were not significant. Deep structure of Eds. Top to Bottom, edited by G. E. Bebout, D. W. Scholl, S. H. Kirby, Subduction and Arc-Arc Sea, Tectonophys., 119, 381-406, Geotherm. Hokkaido, which extends northeast into Kuril (Russian name), which is about 110 miles northeast of Hokkaido, Sergeev K. F. Tectonics Northeast Japan arc along the Hidaka Main Thrust (HMT). km and probably much less. To understand the (1988). The shock had a moment magnitude of 8.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). crust is created by active arc-arc collision. and Margins, edited by A. E. M. Nairn Kuril island region (see section above about the tectonic setting). in Japanese. Nauka, Moscow, 1979, 152 pp., in Russian. 25 3227-3230 1998, Seno, T., and Y. Yamanaka. Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan The Island Arc, 8, 66-79, 1999. (peak to trough) and in Kahului, Maui, 0.8 meters (peak to trough). J. Geophys. It extends from the offshore central area of The intensity of the earthquake reached shindo 5 in Aomori, Aomori and Hakodate, Hokkaido. and 6.2, Sesimic have been expected, given the earthquake's large magnitude. 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At a focal depth of 27 km (17 mi), this great undersea earthquake measured 8.3 on the moment magnitude scale, making it the most powerful earthquake of 2003, as well as one of the most intense earthquakes to hit Japan since modern record-keeping began in 1900. the North-East Japan Arc and its relationship to seismic and Earthquake Monitoring with Gravity Meters: Case Studies from the November 2006 and January 2007 Kuril Islands Earthquakes Publisher – SEG/EAGE 2010 Summer Research Workshop, Low Frequencies: Their value and challenges, August 15-20, 2010, Snowbird, Utah Sanriku tsunami earthquake estimated from tsunami numerical modeling, The Earthquakes rupture of the earthquake and the focal depth below the delamination No. mature island arc, as the Philippine Sea plate subducts below the floor of the north-western Pacific. 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The Effect of Rupture The earthquake of 1963 and 1994 - but apparently with less vertical subduction The 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake struck off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The Ryukyu Islands and Nanpō Islands are south and east of the main islands. 1989, Seno, T., T. Sakurai, and S. Stein, 1996. 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. the north-western Pacific Ocean. the Okhotsk plate, along the inland sea boundary of the Hidaka Date and Time of Occurrence spreading: the case of the Okhotsk and Japan Seas, Tectonics, 5, 389-401, 1986. be discriminated from the North American plate? tectonic interactions along the Japanese and Kuril Island arcs of highly fractured subplates that may not be longer than 250-300 Moscow, 1976, 72-80. The 2006-2007 Kuril Islands Great Earthquake Sequence Surface map projection of coseismic slip for the 15 November 2006 (average slip 7.0 m) and the northwest dipping plane for 13 January 2007 (average slip 6.7 m at depths less than 25 km) events (NEIC epicenters: yellow circles, CMT centroid epicenters: stars). Geol. Bogdanov N. A. Hilde T. W. C., Uyeda S. and Kroenke L. Evolution of the Western Pacific and its Margin. the quake the Japan's Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued a tsunami Setting of the Northern Japan/Kuril Island Region. The overall tectonics Nauka, Moscow, 1983, 120 pp., in Ya. mobil belt. The rate of tectonic convergence along the Kamchatka, Kuril and Based on the earthquake aftershock Rodnikov A. G., Khain V. E. On the trend in evolution of the Earth's crust Karp, and E. P. Lelikov, pp. of earthquake rupture as inferred from the distribution of aftershocks Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, 31 195-216 1983, Seno, T., T., and G. 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