2006 Kuril Islands earthquake

Earthquake in Japan 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake Russia Kuril Islands#Russia Far Eastern Federal District 2006-11-15 11:14:13 usp000exfn 9235276 2006 11 15 8:14 pm 8.3 w y 31 km mi on 46.592 153.266 region:XX_type:event inline,title Kuril–Kamchatka Trench Megathrust Japan, Russia 42 Up to 21.9 m on in Matua Island, Kuril Islands 1 injured The 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake occurred on November 15 at 8:14:16 pm JST 11:14:16 UTC with a moment magnitude (w) of 8.3 and shaking that reached a maximum Mercalli intensity of IV (Light) and a maximum Shindo intensity of JMA 2. 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. The tsunami crossed the Pacific Ocean and damaged the harbor at Crescent City, California. Post-tsunami surveys indicate that the local tsunami in the central Kuril Islands reached runups of 21.9 m or higher.Tsunami Event: KURIL ISLANDS https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazel/view/hazards/tsunami/event-more-info/3016 NGDCMacInnes, B.T., Bourgeois, J., Pinegina, T.K., Kravchunovskays, E., 2009. Tsunami geomorphology: erosion and deposition from the 15 November 2006 Kuril Island tsunami: Geology, v. 37, p. 995–998. Earthquake This earthquake occurred on the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone and had a focal mechanism corresponding to thrust faulting. Based on the energy-to-moment ratio, the earthquake released seismic energy slowly relative to its seismic moment, making this an example of a tsunami earthquake.Kulikov E. A. IvanovaAnastasia Anastasia Alexeevna Tsunami Generation Efficiency of the 1994, 2006 and 2007 Kuril Islands Earthquakes Pure and Applied Geophysics 2021 178 1-2 4921–4939 10.1007/s00024-021-02887-9 It is also considered a doublet of the 2007 Kuril Islands earthquake that hit the same area on January 13, 2007. 10.1038/nature06521 18235499 A great earthquake doublet and seismic stress transfer cycle in the central Kuril islands Nature 451 7178 561–5 2008 Ammon Charles J. Kanamori Hiroo Hiroo Kanamori Lay Thorne 2008Natur.451..561A 4317389 https://authors.library.caltech.edu/51647/7/nature06521-s1.pdf. Tsunami At about 11:45 UTC, tsunami warnings were issued in Japan for the northern coasts of Hokkaidō and Honshū, and a number of towns in this area were very quickly evacuated. Tsunami warnings, advisories and watches were also issued for the coastal areas of Alaska, Hawaii, parts of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California. JMA initially estimated tsunami waves to be as tall as 2 metres when it hit the Japanese northern and eastern coasts, but it turned out to be merely 40 centimetres when it reached Hanasaki Port, Nemuro, Hokkaidō at 9:29 pm local time. The tsunami also hit the rest of Hokkaidō and the Tōhoku Region. The tallest wave recorded in Japan was at Tsubota (坪田), Miyakejima (三宅島), at 84 centimetres. Tsunami also hit as far as Amami in Kagoshima Prefecture and Naha in Okinawa Prefecture, and reached the Hawaiian and California coasts. A 176-centimetre wave in the harbor at Crescent City, California caused an estimated $10 million in damage to the docks.Central Kuril Island Tsunami in Crescent City, California https://web.archive.org/web/20100226130312/http://www.usc.edu/dept/tsunamis/2005/tsunamis/Kuril_2006/index.html 2010-02-26 University of Southern California The United States authorities had issued warnings for the Russian Far East, Japan, Wake Island and Midway Atoll. The nearfield tsunami struck islands with no current inhabitants. However, geologists and archaeologists had visited these islands the previous summer, and returned in the summers of 2007 and 2008.MacInnes et al., 2009, see above.Bourgeois, J. and MacInnes, B.T., 2010. Tsunami boulder transport and other dramatic effects of the 15 November 2006 central Kuril Islands tsunami on the island of Matua: Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplementbände Volume 54, Supplementary Issue 3 (2010), p. 175–195 10.1127/0372-8854/2010/0054S3-0024.MacInnes, B.T., Pinegina, T.K., Bourgeois, J., Razhegaeva, N.G., Kaistrenko, V.M., and Kravchunovskaya, E.A., 2009, Field survey and geological effects of the 15 November 2006 Kuril tsunami in the middle Kuril Islands, Pure and Applied Geophysics v. 166, 10.1007/s00024-008-0428-3. Because there were two central Kurils tsunamis in the winter of 2006/2007 (see 2007 Kuril Islands earthquake), the specific effects of each tsunami are difficult to determine; but evidence shows that the 2006 tsunami was the larger on all islands in the Kurils except for parts of Rasshua.MacInnes, B.T., 2010 Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington. See also List of earthquakes in 2006 List of earthquakes in Russia List of earthquakes in Japan 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake 1963 Kuril Islands earthquake 1994 Kuril Islands earthquake 2007 Kuril Islands earthquake References ISC-GEM Global Instrumental Earthquake Catalogue (1900–2009) http://www.isc.ac.uk/iscgem/index.php ISC 2015 International Seismological Centre Version 2.0 PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog https://earthquake.usgs.gov/static/lfs/data/pager/catalogs/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200313112456/ftp://hazards.cr.usgs.gov/web/data/pager/catalogs/ dead 2020-03-13 September 4, 2009 United States Geological Survey Version 2008_06.1 M 8.3 – Kuril Islands https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000exfn#executive United States Geological Survey Sources The 2006–2007 Kuril Islands great earthquake sequence http://authors.library.caltech.edu/16992/1/Lay2009p6551J_Geophys_Res-Sol_Ea.pdf 2009 T. Lay H. Kanamori Hiroo Kanamori C. J. Ammon A. R. Hutko K. Furlong L. 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Kulikov1 2008 Advances in Geosciences 14 European Geosciences Union 14 105–116 10.5194/adgeo-14-105-2008 2008AdG....14..105R https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00297054/file/adgeo-14-105-2008.pdf free External links Japan and Russia on tsunami alert Japan's false alarm showcases tsunami alert system – The Christian Science Monitor Small tsunamis hit northern Japan – BBC News Central Kuril Island Tsunami in Crescent City, California (11/15/2006) – University of Southern California Small tsunami waves hit Japan after earthquake – Associated Press Global Surge of Great Earthquakes—What We Are Learning From Them – IRIS Consortium 9235276 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake Category:Megathrust earthquakes in Japan Category:Megathrust earthquakes in Russia Category:Doublet earthquakes Category:2006 tsunamis Category:Earthquakes in the Russian Far East Kuril Islands earthquake Kuril Islands earthquake Kuril Islands earthquake Category:Tsunamis in Russia Category:November 2006 in Asia Category:History of the Kuril Islands Category:November 2006 in Russia Category:November 2006 in Japan Category:2006 disasters in Japan Category:Tsunami earthquakes