Japan Tohoku Earthquake 2011
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- Category: Japan Tohoku Earthquake 2011
- Created on Monday, 14 March 2011 20:43
- Last Updated on Friday, 08 February 2013 21:20
Summary
At 12:46 AM Eastern Standard Time on March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake occurred off the eastern coast of Japan. The quake epicenter was approximately 80 mi east of the city of Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, Japan at an estimated depth of 32 km. The quake region lies along a subduction zone where the Pacific plate is descending beneath the North American plate. The quake resulted in a tsunami that heavily damaged Sendai directly and prompted tsunami warnings along the entire east coast of Japan and throughout the Pacific Rim. (image from the New York Times)
News
Press release, February 7th, 2013: New report in Science illuminates stress change during the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake from seafloor boreholes.
Public Resources about the Sendai Earthquake and its Effects
- United State Geologic Survey earthquake information
- IRIS Website
- Harvard Seismology (rupture models for the Sendai Earthquake based on the US Transportable Array)
- GEO Geohazards SuperSite (prototype created by UNAVCO and WInSAR on behalf of GEO and ESA)
- Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
- Tsunami prediction (NOAA and BBC)
- Coastlines before and after (NASA)
- Shoreline subsidence (NASA)
- Japan Meteorological Agency (Statements on the Sendai earthquake: Report 1; Report 2)
- Japan Times, English-language Japanese daily: Japan Times list of earthquake resources
- Report from the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Japan
Media Links - GeoPRISMS-MARGINS Scientists Talk About Earthquakes
- National Geographic Special on Earthquakes in the US (B. Magnani, March 13, 2011)
- Saint Louis Science Center (D. Wiens interview; March 11, 2011)
- CBS News, NY (J. Gaherty, M. McNutt; March 11, 2011)
- Fox News 11, WI (H. Tobin, March 11, 2011)
- ABC News, NY (G. Abers, March 11, 2011)
- KPRC, Houston (D. Sawyer, March 11, 2011)
- UT Dallas News Center (J. Oldow, R. Stern, J. Ferguson, March 11, 2011)
- Science Magazine, Lessons from Japan (March 11, 2011)
- BBC, What Chance of a "Big One" in Tokyo? (C. Goldfinger, et al; March 21, 2001)
GeoPRISMS-MARGINS Resources Relating to Seismogenic Zones
Subduction Zone Summary and Sendai Earthquake:
- Overview of the Sendai Earthquake (Stern and Scholl; 10 MB ppt)
MARGINS Nankai Focus Site materials:
- Nankai Site homepage
- Nankai Site overview map (from MARGINS 2008 Research Nuggets; 10mb pdf)
- Mantle-wedge tomography across Honshu, Japan (after Zhao, et al, 1992)
Related MARGINS Research Nuggets 2009:
