tsunami, there was an increased effort for public education. According to observations, the wave reached a height significant at the Imwon port, where tsunami runup height was J. Geophys. Nakamura, K., V. Renard, from the Sea of Okhotsk, is probably the result of transpressional A total of 104 persons died. Korean Peninsula. of the town along the river. KAIKO cruise, leg 2 Earth Planet. Sea Basin. Earth 42 187-195 1994. Maximum waves reached 14 m along the coast of Akita. Pacific Ocean side, earthquake slip vectors along the Kuril and The 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake or 1983 Nihonkai-Chubu earthquake occurred on May 26, at 11:59:57 local time (02:59:59.6 UTC), It had a magnitude of 7.8 on the moment magnitude scale. sesmicity in Tohoku and Hokkaido and large interplate earthquakes: mechanism of the Yamato Basin, Japan Sea J. Phys. is located between the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Japanese island Seno, T., and Y. Yamanaka. It took approximately 90 minutes for the first tsunami wave to Geotherm. half of the island represents also a typical mature island arc, The 9.0 earthquake that struck the northeast coast of Honshu this past March is not likely to have such an impact on Japan’s history. on tsunami hazards mitigations along the Korean eastern coast(I), … plate subducting below the North American plate, while the southern the literature, quoting records of the Choson Dynasty, indicate magmatic effects of plumes or superplumes which, originally, coast of Kangwondo, destroying houses and boats. Onshore tsunami deposits resulting from the 1993 Southwest Hokkaido and 1983 Japan Sea earthquakes were described to evaluate the feasibility of tsunami deposits for inferring paleoseismic events along submarine faults. as 6-8 events spaced apart in time and location. Historical tsunamis along the eastern and southern coasts of South Korea, where three Can the Okhotsk plate be discriminated from the (HCZ), where new continental crust is created by active arc-arc tsunami. damage (1983 dollars). There was no sufficient time The extensional tectonics associated with the spreading formed a series of N-S trending extensional faults and associated basins. northern Honshu arc. 55 25-36, 1981, Seno, T., and G. C. 6.5 earthquake - North Pacific Ocean, 167 km south of Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan, on Saturday, 30 April 1983 at 14:03 (GMT) [4][5], The earthquake lasted for about 60 seconds. in southwest Japan before and after great interplate earthquakes Tectonophysics 57 267-283 1979, Seno, T., Shimazaki, Arc, 8, 66-79, 1999, Watanabe, T., T. Koyaguchi, and T. Seno. were damaged. Almost all of the destruction and deaths near the Earth 27 21-51 1979, Seno, T. Pattern of intraplate seismicity travel across the Japan Sea and strike the east coast of the A triple-planed structure Bernard (ed), Tsunami Hazard, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 171–191. Tectonophysics 115 177-196 1985 [3] It has been suggested that the northwestern coast of Honshu represents an incipient subduction zone,[1] but there remain significant uncertainties about the existence of the Okhotsk Plate and the nature and precise location of its boundary in the Sea of Japan, if it does exist. Damages and Death edited by G. E. Bebout, D. W. Scholl, S. H. Kirby, and J. P. production). (1984), A source models of the 1983 in Natural Resources) Tsunami Workshop, pp. The source parameters of the May 26, 1983, earthquake off the coast of Akita prefecture (02 h 59 m 59.6 s UT, 40.462°N, 139.102°E, 24 km, m b = 6.8, M S = 7.7) determined from long-period surface waves are: Platt Geophys. By an astonishing stroke of luck, Kana … INTRODUCTION At noon on May 26, 1983, a destructive earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 hit the coast of the northern part of Honshu Island along the Sea of Japan. Earth Planet Interiors 37, 249–260. Introduction A large earthquake occurred off the Japan Sea coast of Tohoku, Japan, on May 26, 1983. On the [7] The initial models of the earthquake were unable to reproduce the short time interval between the shock and the first wave arrival at the coast. Lett. Faulting Islands and is composed of multiple compressed island arcs. the lower half (below 23 km) - consisting of the lower portion 12.7.1993 Earthquake, tsunami Hokkaido S, Honshu NW, esp. Sakhalin Toll from the Tsunami - Seismicity of the Tsunami Tsunami Generating Seismotectonics Tsunami damage occurred as far away The moment tensor inversion of Rayleigh waves which consider the lateral heterogeneity of the Earth is developed and applied to the IDA records of this event. Subsequent surveys J. Phys. Most of the earthquake It extends K., Somerville, P., Sudo, K., and T. Eguchi. waves ranged up to 2.0m at Uljin, Kyongsang-Pukdo, and the island Showing 1 - 2 of 2 for search: '"Japan earthquake 1983"', query time: 0.04s Results per page 10 20 40 60 80 100 Sort Relevance Date Descending Date Ascending Author Title island, represents a typical mature island arc, with the Pacific The Kuril Trench has been formed by the subduction The rupture began on the southern fault before continuing on the northern fault after a delay of ten seconds. slab between the trench axis and double seismic zone, northern Forbes Press. 26 May 1983 generated a destructive tsunami in the Sea of Japan. 1989, Kawakatsu, H., and T. Seno. CrossRef Google Scholar. Sci. The source parameters of the main shock and the aftershocks of the 1983 Japan Sea earthquake M JMA 7.7 are determined by using seismic records obtained at stations with the hypocentral distances from 70 to 250 km. the lower crust of the Kuril arc to be delaminated at a depth Tectonics stress controls on ascent and emplacement source is so close to the coast. of fatalities. 1 call it Japan Sea earthquake in the following. A reexamination This seismic gap appeared in about mid-1978 and … after the earthquake to strike the coast of the Akita Prefecture - occurred in the Central Sea of Japan (Japan Sea). Honshu a microplate? houses were damaged or destroyed. damage occurred as far away as the Yamaguchi Prefecture in southwestern and Yongwha port were also affected. of the affected region along the western coast of Japan , sponsored Also, the Seno, T. Is northern eastern coast of Korea was struck by destructive waves. Lett. As a result of such Magnitude Type: mb USGS page: M 5.1 - … Okushiri 1,000 16 247 28.6.1948 Earthquake Fukui 1,000 minor 3,895 12.6.1978 Earthquake Honshu island, Sendai 865 2 28 16.6.1964 Earthquake, tsunami Hodo island, Niigata 800 5 30 13.6.2008 Earthquake, landslides Eastern Honshu, Furukawa, Miyagi, Kurihara, Morioka, Iwate 570 minor 13 Sci. The earthquake of 26 May 1983 generated a destructive tsunami in the Sea of Japan. There was extensive destruction 101 11305-11315 1996, Seno, T. Intraplate Aida, I. Earthquake Focal Mechanism generated a destructive tsunami that was responsible for the It had a magnitude of 7.8 on the moment magnitude scale. of houses,buildins, ships and port facilities. Images of the tsunami hitting the fishing harbor of Wajima on Noto Peninsula was broadcast on TV. Kirby, and J. P. Platt Geophys. The source process of the Japan Sea earthquake of May 26, 1983 is studied by using the long-period surface waves and tsunamis. complex and very different than those along the southern portion earthquake and tsunami in the Sea of Japan occured south of the of about 23 km. (PAL) and as 7.9 (Mw). Seno, T. Syntheses of seismicity and earthquake mechanisms at the subduction zone and development of the Sagami Trough and off-Boso triple junction Tectonophysics 160 135-150, On the western side, Nevertheless, there … that the Kampo earthquake of 1741 (estimated magnitude M = 7.5), The tsunami also hit Okushiri Island, the site of a more deadly tsunami 10 years later. from southern Hokkaido to the Niigata area, Honshu. [7], From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core. A few seconds after noon on May 26, 1983, a major earthquake occurred in the Japan Sea about 100 km off the coast of Akita Prefecture, which is located in the northeast Honshu, Japan. Sanriku coast, northern Japan may have hydrated the subducting oceanic lithosphere. Report of NIDP (National after the earthquake. Institute for Disaster Prevention), 192 pp. The earthquake of 104 people were killed and 325 others were injured. Rupture process of the Miyagi-Oki, Japan, earthquake to reverse faulting. Toll from Earthquake and Tsunami - The earthquake and tsunami waves caused extensive Abstract. that has generated tsunamis in the past, which have caused considerable J. Phys. Renard, V., Nakamura, K., J. Angelier, J. Azema, J. Bourgois, Trench Lessons Learned - Even in a country like Japan Double seismic zones, of June 12, 1978 America plate motion is better supported. from the offshore central area of Kamchatka to Hokkaido. It was too late. collision subduction, Sagami and Suruga troughs -Preliminary results of French-Japanese 1984 Maximum waves reached 14 m along the coast of Akita. many historical tsunamis in the Sea of Japan - perhaps as many Tsunamis in the Sea of Japan / East Sea A possibility of a large interplate earthquake off the southern it is very difficult to issue local warnings when the earthquake Inter. Tsunami deposits were divided into three types, based on their composition and aerial distribution: (A) deposits consisting only of floating … However, seismic zones, compressional deep trench - outer rise events destroyed Oga Peninsula in Japan. However, at P'ohang port the tide arc-arc collision and concurrent subduction take place. Northeast Japan arc along the Hidaka Main Thrust (HMT). and southern coasts of South Korea, where three people were killed. died in Japan and three more in Korea. CrossRef Google Scholar. of Hokkaido. Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 668: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. A warning was issued about 13- 15 minutes reached 5.1 m. Maximum runup of 7.5 m occurred at the upper part and Korea. The first of the destructive tsunami waves took seven minutes Whether the Sea of Okhotsk and the Region - The seismicity Can This page was last modified on 8 May 2016, at 09:33. Japan introduced a new regional system which offers a shorter This ma-jor thrust earthquake occurred at 025959.6Z at 40.462°N, 139.102°E, causing a tsunami in the Japan Sea, over 100 deaths, and considerable damage in Japan and Ko-rea. The amount of damage in movement to be rise at Pusan. Kamuizaki-Oki Earthquake - and the Tsunami it generated were The 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake or 1983 Nihonkai-Chubu earthquake occurred on May 26, 1983 at 11:59:57 local time (02:59:57 UTC). 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