1911 Kikai Island earthquake

Earthquake in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan 1911 Kikai Island earthquake 喜界島地震 ja 1911-06-15 14:25:53 16958149 iscgem16958149 1911 06 15 y 23:26 Japan Kagoshima Prefecture s y 8.1 10 km on 28.7 N 130.6 E Japan 12 deaths The 1911 Kikai Island earthquake 喜界島地震 Kikai-jima Jishin occurred on June 15 at 23:26 local time (14:26 UTC). The epicenter of the earthquake was located near Kikai Island, Japan. It had a magnitude of s y 8.1."Seismotectonics of the Western Pacific region" by T. Seno Overview The earthquake occurred near the northern end of the deepest region in Ryukyu Trench.Relationship between the occurrence of great earthquakes and tectonic structures http://repository.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2261/12463/1/ji0473003.pdf K. Mogi Kiyoo Mogi 1969 Bulletin of the Earthquake Research Institute Earthquake Research Institute 47 443 2013-02-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304003452/http://repository.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2261/12463/1/ji0473003.pdf 2016-03-04 dead The hypocenter was located near 28.00°E, 130.00°N, about 30 km south of the Kikai Island, with a depth of about 100 km. However, due to the instrumental precision of that time, the location of the hypocenter was just an approximation, and estimations differ. A recent study estimated that the hypocenter was located near 28.90°E, 130.25°N, about 60 km NNE of the Kikai Island, with a depth of about 30 km.Hypocenter of the 1911 great earthquake occurred around Kikai-jima, Japan Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2012 Goto Kazuhiko Japan Geoscience Union 2012 In 2013, another study reevaluated the location and depth of the earthquake and found that its hypocenter depth was 10 km.Goto Kazuhiko 1911年に喜界島近海で発生した巨大地震の震源位置の再評価 Jishin 2013 65 3 231-242 10.4294/zisin.65.231 130483208 https://academic.naver.com/article.naver?doc_id=168107617 Re-evaluation of Hypocenter of the 1911 Great Earthquake around Kikai-jima, Japan ja 0037-1114 free The reevaluation also relocated the epicenter location to 28.7°E, 130.6°N. Twelve people were reported dead, including one on Kikai Island. Four hundred and twenty two houses were completely destroyed, 401 of which on Kikai Island. Damage was also reported on Amami Ōshima, Toku-no-shima, and Okinawa Island.http://www.jma-net.go.jp/naze/sigoto/kansoku/jisin/jishin.html 過去の被害地震 jma-net.go.jp 2013-02-26 2014-04-14 https://web.archive.org/web/20140414102811/http://www.jma-net.go.jp/naze/sigoto/kansoku/jisin/jishin.html dead The wall of Shuri Castle in Shuri was damaged.http://sakuya.ed.shizuoka.ac.jp/rzisin/kaishi_24/HE24_007_031_05Takemura.pdf 歴史地震研究会 This earthquake could be felt as far as in Shanghai, China, Tainan, Taiwan (then under Japanese rule), and Fukushima, Japan.http://repository.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2261/17182/1/KJ00004855281.pdf Archived copy 2013-02-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20131020102645/http://repository.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2261/17182/1/KJ00004855281.pdf 2013-10-20 dead "本世纪上海地区地震概述及地震活动与断裂的关系" by 刘昌森 Tsunami The earthquake triggered a tsunami which was recorded on Kikai Island and Amami Ōshima. The tsunami was relatively small on the east coast of Kikai Island, but had a height of at least 5m on the west coast of Kikai Island and also in Amami Ōshima, and may have had a maximum height of over 10m in certain parts of Kikai Island.Iwamoto K, Kazuhiko G (2013). Oral survey of the tsunami generated by the 1911 great earthquake (M8.0) that occurred around Kikai-jima, Japan. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting (in Japanese), Makuhari, Chiba, 19–24 May 2013. http://www2.jpgu.org/meeting/2013/session/PDF/S-SS31/SSS31-P37.pdf 岩本健吾、後藤和彦：1911年に喜界島近海で発生した巨大地震(M8.0)に伴う津波の聞き取り調査 日本地球惑星科学連合2013年資料 See also List of earthquakes in 1911 List of earthquakes in Japan References International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology Part A, Volume 81A Global seismicity: 1900–1999 E. R. Engdahl A. Vallaseñor 2002 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/centennial/ Academic Press First 978-0124406520 672 External links 16958149 Category:1911 in Japan Kikai Island earthquake, 1911 Category:1910s tsunamis Category:June 1911 in Asia Category:Megathrust earthquakes in Japan Category:Tsunamis in Japan Category:Earthquakes of the Meiji era Category:1911 disasters in Japan