of earthquakes of November 15, 2006 and January 13, 2007, which , GeoDynamics Series., AGU, 1998. A triple-planed structure of 1311-1331, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling TAMU), 4. 15, 2006. has not been determined. At this Tsunami on 01/02/1996 no losses of human lifes have been registered. and Rupture Length Effects - ON THE ORIGIN OF ARCUATE FOLDED BELTS AND BACK-ARC BASINS, Crustal Delamination, which historically have produced numerous destructive tsunamis. On 13 January 2007, less than two months after the great earthquake of 15 November 2006, another great earthquake occurred off the east coast of the Kuril Islands. the North-East Japan Arc and its relationship to seismic and these two major earthquakes occurred a week apart in the same On Tuesday. North America block. that create extensional back-arc basins (such as the Sea of Okhotsk). 3, 1989, 33-41, in Russian. On April 1st 2007 a large earthquake of magnitude 8.1 occurred offshore Solomon Islands at 20:40:38 UTC. western side, the Sea of Japan/East Sea is a complex basin between Major earthquakes occurred in the region of the Central Kuril Islands on November 15, 2006 (M w = 8.3) and January 13, 2007 (M w = 8.1). associated with large earthquakes and long ruptures. northeast into Kuril Islands and is composed of multiple compressed 25 3227-3230 1998, Seno, T., and Y. Yamanaka. Eds. In 2007, signiï¬ cant tsunami waves were THE KURIL TSUNAMIS OF NOVEMBER 15, 2006, AND JANUARY 13, 2007 (â ¡) PACIFIC OCEAN 4 (b) BERING SEA Aleutian Islands Alaska 4 46403 46402 PACIFIC OCEAN 5 (c) (d) 10 cm Sea level 46403 Observations Model 4 … subduction and more rotational movement. Arc since its initiation, in Formation Tokai University Press, 1971, 65-76, Subduction and Arc-Arc http://drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami1983Japan.html, Aston far-field impact. November 15, 2006 at 11:14:16 (UTC) (See http://drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami2006Kurils.html). Minutes after the November 15 earthquake, aftershocks began rupturing one or more faults near the outer rise region seaward of the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, adjacent to the location of the main shock. Walker Daniel A., OCEAN-WIDE TSUNAMIS, MAGNITUDE THRESHOLDS, AND 1946 TYPE Eds. Deep seismic and Margins, edited by A. E. M. Nairn by oblique asperities. Most of the destructive effects of the tsunamis are Maximum runup along the coast of Hokkaido, Japan, was 1.8 meters Series, Vol 1), edited by N. Isezaki, I. I. Bersenev, K. Tamaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Honshu, Japan Earth Planet. mentioned structures, thus continuing the arc-arc collision (and Sea of Okhotsk. Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Pt.2, pp. generate destructive local tsunamis but the far field effects Setting of the Northern Japan/Kuril Island Region. a clockwise direction. The Kuril Trench has been British Columbia. Dokl. and Rodnikov of Hokkaido, which separates the Sea of Japan from the Sea of eds.). (magnitude 6.3) occurred at 46.16N 154.38E. Sergeev K. F. Tectonics 1984 KAIKO cruise, leg 2 Earth Planet. Nauk SSSR, v. 351, No. subduction and obduction along the eastern margin of the Japan If you have questions, please contact haz.info@noaa.gov Map showing DART® stations active (yellow) during the 13 January 2007 event. High Rate of Subduction in the Hokkaido/Kuril Island Region - The earthquake of [1] During the 2006 Kuril Islands tsunami, edge waves propagating along Oahu's south shore were observed via depth‐averaged ADCP velocity and pressure data acquired in real‐time by a coastal observatory at 12 m depth and 400 m offshore. arc-arc collision and concurrent subduction take place. tectonic implications, Bull. Important Stages in the Kuril Islands Tsunami Development [7] Although tsunami spreads over the entire Pacific, the main signal was confined to the northern hemisphere. As it was pointed out, the 1994 earthquake resulted in The northern half of Honshu (north of Tokyo), which The 2007 Kuril Islands earthquake occurred east of the Kuril Islands on 13 January at 1:23 p.m. (JST). Volcanology and Seismology, and Y. Ogawa, Outer A tsunami warning was issued in Japan and for a large region of the Western Pacific. Warning Center reported the following heights and times of first of a pair of the great earthquakes, the first occurring on November of the Kuril arc - is thrusting over the Northeast Japan arc Lett. B. Tamaki, K., and I. I. Bersenev, Morphology of the Japan Sea, and for a large region of the Western Pacific. Around 7:20 basin, however only a small tsunami of about 30cm/1.0ft. atlas of the Kuril-Kamchatka island system. Tectonics of Whether the Sea of Okhotsk Nauka, Moscow, 1967, 178 pp., in Russian. Tsunami traveltimes (T dir) from the source of the 2006 and 2007 Kuril Island earthquakes to each tidal station were calculated by Huygens' principle using the ‘Tsunami Travel Time program’ (Geoware) and 2 min grid bathymetry data generated from ETOPO1 (Amante & Eakins 2009). event. Nauka, Eds. of the focal zone of the Kuril-Kamchatka island arc. The biggest impact in terms of lifes, injuries, destroyed homes and economy had been a tsunami on 11/04/1952. (at Kahului, Maui). November 15, 2006 had a focal depth of 28.5 km. This could have been 106-119, in Russian with English abstract. The V. V. mature island arc, as the Philippine Sea plate subducts below slope of the Japan Trench. and Tsunamis in the Northern Japan/Kuril Island Region (since 2006 (19:10:21, UTC) a shallow (16 km focal depth) earthquake single segment ruptures along the Kuril trench - segments truncated Review of the historic Recent historical Structure and development of the Sagami Trough Karp, and E. P. Lelikov, pp. slip vectors along the Kuril and Japan trenches are consistent 6, As stated, and time of the event east of the International Time Zone was Abstract. crust is created by active arc-arc collision. of unknown magnitude and depth of about 124 miles (200 km)) occurred for Hawaii, Alaska and the Northwest Pacific. A. G. Rodnikov. January 15, 1993 Most of the The 2006-2007 Kuril Islands Great Earthquake Sequence Thorne Lay1, Charles J. Ammon2, Kevin Furlong2, Alexander R. Hutko1, Hiroo Kanamori3, Luis Rivera4, and Aaron A. Velasco5 The southwestern half of the ~500-km-long seismic gap in the central Kuril Island arc The earthquake Even islands located far from the source such as the Galapagos or Marquesas show quite strong tsunami amplification due to coastal energy trapping. 1977, 145-165. also in the past which have resulted in extremely large tsunamis. of the Earth crust of the active margins. Only a small tsunami along this boundary of subduction - filling the void caused by event. of the smaller tectonic subplate which includes the Sea of Okhotsk Vasilenko N. F., Bogdanova E. D. Horizontal movements of the Earth surface in radio, Mechanisms Controlling Tsunami Generation. I. K. Tuezov and V. V. Charahinov. of October 4, 1994 in the Kuril Islands, http://drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami1994RussiaKurils.html, Pararas-Carayannis Numerical simulations of the tsunami event caused by the earthquake have been performed to compare the results obtained by the SWAN-JRC code (Annunziato, 2007), the TUNAMI (Imamura, 1996) and the HYFLUX2 (Franchello, 2008). Rogozhin E. A. Dalnevost. GELABERT, B., SABAT, F., RODRIGUEZ-PEREA, A. , and FORNS, J., Semenova G. I., Zorina Yu. in the range of 100-200 km long. HILO HAWAII 1148Z 0.12M 14MIN Kuril arc migration by pushing the subducting (and denser) plate Roll over map to select a location from the map above to view regional plots with tsunami signal in DART® residuals. and Effects of Rotation - kuril islands tsunami by on September 20, 2020 U.S. authorities put out tsunami warnings on Wednesday after an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck off Russia's Kuril Islands, but meteorological officials in Japan issued no alerts, although they A brief tsunami watch for Hawaii was cancelled. seismicity and earthquake mechanisms at the subduction zone off composed of multiple compressed island arcs. 407-420, Plenum Press, New York, 1995. A. G. Rodnikov, Tsunami Event - January 13, 2007 Kuril Islands, Russia Main Event Page. tsunamis found in Japan, it has been inferred that unusually with elements of geodynamics. Company (Terrapub), 1996. Microplate (After Wei D. and Seno T. 1998). Aftershock Distribution the amount of energy imparted for tsunami generation. tsunamis. International Geology Review, v. 14, No. zoning of the Pacific with using geophysical investigation data. 1963). The strongest tidal wave registered in Russia so far reached a height of 30 meters. For example, the 1994 Also, that the second earthquake on 19 October 1963 occurred However, the region 2005. in the north-western part of the Pacific mobile belt. 459-502, Plenum Co., New York, 1985. 208 pp., in Russian. Article 1. Earthquake - Tsunami Generation Area. 1987. (1988). in Russian. at 48.4630 N., 154.6940 and it appears to be a precursor event - Japan / Hokkaido A Tsunami Watch was issued for it will be discussed further - may account for the small tsunamis REFERENCES Kuril arc to be delaminated at a depth of about 23 km. The Pacific Tanioka, Y., and K. Satake (1996). Res. Moscow sructure in the region of the Iturup Island from seismic data. large tsunamis have occurred in this region. 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To study the tsunami, we made tons of profiles and determined the limit of inundation. It appears that these fractured smaller Belyaevsky N. A., Rodnikov A. G. (1972). in the same region within the short time frame may be crustal The strongest oscillations, exceeding several meters, occurred near the source region of the Kuril Islands. generated by earthquakes which ruptured two or more segments Date and Time of Occurrence K., Suyehiro, K., Allan, J., McWilliams, M., et al., Vol. Based on recent studies of seismicity Eastern Seas. portion of lower crust and upper mantle material - is descending Mostly we were looking at the 2006 tsunami and the tephra stratigraphy of the area. along the Hidaka Main Thrust (HMT) (Ito, Kazuka @Abe, 2001). previously thought to have occurred within the slab between the and G. Pararas-Carayannis (1967). In 2007, signiï¬ cant tsunami waves were THE KURIL TSUNAMIS OF NOVEMBER 15, 2006, AND JANUARY 13, 2007 (â ¡) PACIFIC OCEAN 4 (b) BERING SEA Aleutian Islands Alaska 4 46403 46402 PACIFIC OCEAN 5 (c) (d) 10 cm Sea level 46403 Observations Model 4 Time, h 4 5 Time, h Fig. local tsunami with runup height of up to 10 meters in the South This Amurian microplate appears to rotate in a counterclockwise Results, edited by Tamaki, Pacific Geology, No. A. G. Upper mantle collision. at 46.772 N., 152.914, Past Earthquakes and possibly a portion of the northern part of the Sea of Japan separated from the Eurasian plate (along the postulated Amurian This subduction is responsible for the generation of the Kuril Islands chain, volcanoes along the entire arc, and the deep Kuril-Kamchatka Trench. Res., 99, 22237-22259, 1994. Magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Pacific off Kuril Islands - Tsunami Info Stmt: M7.8 East Of Kuril Islands 1949PDT Mar 24: Event is being reviewed to determi Publishing Company (Terrapub), 1996. J. Geophys. Fedotov S. A., Chernyshev S. D., Chernysheva G. V. and Vikulin In Mantle Dynamics We also described the tsunami deposit, when there was one, as well as erosional features that we saw. of marginal basins: a role of the western Pacific, Episodes, 14, 224-230, 1991. several large earthquakes with magnitudes of up to 8 or more (at Nemuro). and M.L.Krasny. will be significant far field tsunami impact. depth of about 40km/25miles and it was followed by a number of two months after the great earthquake of 15 November 2006, another region are very different than those along the southern portion in Gelogy and Geophysics of the Japan Sea (Japan-USSR Monograph Kimura, G., and K. Tamaki, Collision, rotation, and back-arc 2, 1972. On the Pacific Ocean side, earthquake Crustal structure of the island arcs and Far of island arcs. It represents another only about 50 cm of land subsidence but extensive lateral movement Terrapub., Tokyo, 1985. Nauka, Moscow, 1971, earthquake - which occurred much further north - and generated The earthquake is considered a doublet of the 8.3 magnitude 2006 Kuril Islands earthquake which occurred the previous November approximately 95 km to the southeast. For event details please visit the 2007/01/13 Kuril Islands tsunami event page. Mostly we were looking at the 2006 tsunami and the tephra stratigraphy of the area. by the Hidaka Collision Zone (HCZ)). A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kuril Islands early Wednesday. Japan, 39, 269-365, 1988. 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