Re-evaluation of Magnitude and Focal Region of the 1900 Northern Miyagi Prefecture Earthquake in Japan

TAKEMURA Masayuki

doi:10.4294/zisin1948.58.1_41

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1900年宮城県北部地震のマグニチュードと震源位置の再評価
1900年宮城県北部地震のマグニチュードと震源位置の再評価--1962年および2003年の地震との関連性
1900ネンミヤギケンホクブジシンノマグニチュードトシンゲンイチノサイヒョウカ 1962ネンオヨビ 2003ネンノジシントノカンレンセイ
1962年および2003年の地震との関連性
Comparison with the 1962 and the 2003 Events

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Abstract

Three damaging inland earthquakes have occurred in the northern Miyagi Prefecture of the Tohoku District in Japan since 1900. Magnitudes M of the 1962 and the 2003 events were assigned to be 6.5 and 6.4, respectively, from local seismic records observed by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). That of the 1900 event was 7.0, which was determined mainly from the seismic intensity data, while the rank of damage was very lower than other M=7 class inland shallow earthquakes in Japan. In the present study, damage rate data, seismic intensity data, and old seismograms were re-examined to evaluate the magnitude and the location of the focal region of the 1900 event. Re-evaluated magnitude of this event is almost the same as those of the 1962 and 2003 events. The seismic gap between the 1962 and 2003 events is filled with the focal region of the 1900 event obtained. The possibility of a big shallow earthquake occurrence must be very low in near future in the seismic zone of the northern Miyagi Prefecture.

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Zisin (Journal of the Seismological Society of Japan. 2nd ser.)

Zisin (Journal of the Seismological Society of Japan. 2nd ser.) 58 (1), 41-53, 2005

SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

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