1997 Kamchatka earthquake

Earthquake on the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia 1997 Kamchatka earthquake Russia Kamchatka Krai 1997-12-05 11:26:53 1056468 usp0008btk December 5, 1997 23:26:53 PETT w y 7.7 33 km 54.841 N 162.035 E region:PE_type:event inline,title VII The 1997 Kamchatka earthquake, or 1997 Kronotsky earthquake, occurred on December 5 at 11:26 UTC near the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It was an w y 7.7 (7.6–7.8) earthquake and was felt with intensity MM V in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy. A 60 cm (23.6 in) tsunami was recorded in Kahului, 47 cm (18.5 in.) in Hilo, and 15 cm (6 in.) in Unalaska. The local tsunami generated by this earthquake affected a mostly unpopulated region. A post-tsunami survey found runup (height above normal sea level) on the Kronotsky Peninsula was no more than a few meters.Zayakin, Yu. A. and Pinegina, T.K., 1998. Tsunami in Kamchatka on December 5, 1997: p. 257–263 in Gordeev, E.I., Ivanov, B.V. and Vikulin, A.V., eds., 1998. Kronotskoye earthquake of December 5, 1997, on Kamchatka. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: Kamchatkan State Academy of Fishing Marine, 294p. [in Russian with English abstracts and figure captions]. However, a later geological survey north of the peninsula, as well as an interview with a park ranger, indicate that runup was up to 8 m us along the coast near the Little and Big Chazhma rivers and north to the Storozh River.Bourgeois, J., and V.V. Titov, 2001, A Fresh Look at the 1997 Kronosky Tsunami, Trans. European Geophysical Society, Abstracts. Article in preparation. Deformation during and after this earthquake was measured by GPS.Bürgmann, R., Kogan, M.G., Levin, V.E., Scholz, C.H., King, R.W. and Steblov, G.M., 2001. Rapid aseismic moment release following the 5 December 1997 Kronotsky, Kamchatka, earthquake: Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 28, p. 1331–1334. There were significant foreshocks, and also an apparently independent rupture along the southern border of the primary rupture.Slavina, L.B., Pivovarova, N.B. and Levina, V.I., 2007. A study in the velocity structure of December 5, 1997, Mw = 7.8 Kronotskii rupture zone, Kamchatka: : J. Volcanology & Seismology, v. 1, p. 254–262. References Significant Earthquake Database https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=1&d=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20060929000601/http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=1&d=1 dead September 29, 2006 National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS) National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA 10.7289/V5TD9V7K 1972 Data Set Person Waverly J. Waverly Person Significant Earthquakes of the World United States Geological Survey 2010-01-05 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/significant/sig_1997.php 2011-02-12 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110607141145/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/significant/sig_1997.php 2011-06-07 Further reading Bourgeois Joanne Pinegina Tatiana K. The 1997 Kronotsky earthquake and tsunami and their predecessors, Kamchatka, Russia Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 18 1 2018 1684-9981 10.5194/nhess-18-335-2018 335–350 2018NHESS..18..335B free External links 1056468 Kamchatka Kamchatka Earthquake, 1997 Kamchatka Category:December 1997 in Russia Category:Earthquakes in the Russian Far East