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    The 2012 Sanriku earthquake (三陸沖地震, Sanriku oki jishin) occurred near the city of Kamaishi, Japan, on December 7 at 17:18 JST. The magnitude 7.3 shock...
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  • Sanriku earthquake (Japanese: 三陸沖地震) may refer to: 869 Sanriku earthquake 1611 Sanriku earthquake 1896 Sanriku earthquake 1933 Sanriku earthquake 1994...
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  • Thumbnail for Seismicity of the Sanriku coast
    the Sanriku coast identifies and describes the seismic activity of an area of Japan. Seismicity refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced...
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    The 1994 offshore Sanriku earthquake (Japanese: 三陸はるか沖地震 Sanriku Haruka Okijishin) occurred on December 28, 1994, at 12:19 UTC (21:19 local time). This...
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    § Seismicity Kantō earthquakes Nankai megathrust earthquakes Seismicity of the Sanriku coast Tōkai earthquakes Tōnankai earthquakes USGS Earthquake Catalog Search...
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  • historical earthquakes Seismicity of the Sanriku coast 1454 Kyōtoku earthquake and tsunami Sawai, Yuki; Namegaya, Yuichi (9 November 2012). "Challenges...
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    Earthquakes are caused by movements within the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle. They range from weak events detectable only by seismometers, to sudden...
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    original height. This megathrust earthquake was a recurrence of the mechanism of the earlier 869 Sanriku earthquake, which has been estimated as having...
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    of some great earthquakes, fail to alert the population of the neighboring coast, as in the 1896 Sanriku earthquake. During an earthquake, high temperatures...
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    The 1960 Valdivia earthquake and tsunami (Spanish: Terremoto de Valdivia) or the Great Chilean earthquake (Gran terremoto de Chile) on 22 May 1960 was...
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  • Historical earthquakes is a list of significant earthquakes known to have occurred prior to the early 20th century. As the events listed here occurred...
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    foreshocks and aftershocks of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake. Japan had experienced 900 aftershocks after the M9.1 earthquake on March 11, 2011 with about 60 aftershocks...
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    identify a tsunami earthquake as tsunamigenic and therefore fail to predict possibly damaging tsunamis. On 15 June 1896 the Sanriku coast was struck by...
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    Minamisanriku (redirect from Minami Sanriku)
    including the 869 Sanriku earthquake, and more recently during the 1896 Sanriku earthquake and the 1933 Sanriku earthquake. The 1896 earthquake resulted in...
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    with the establishment of the modern municipalities system. The 1896 Sanriku earthquake caused a 25-meter tsunami which killed 27,000 people in the area....
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    The Sanriku Railway (三陸鉄道, Sanriku Tetsudō) is a railway company in Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan. The company and its lines are also known as Santetsu...
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    system. The previous day, March 3, was the anniversary of the 1933 Sanriku earthquake, and the large number of training and evacuation drills held that...
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    Meiji Sanriku Tsunami". shippai.org. Retrieved 2023-07-22. Barkan, R.; ten Brink, U. (2010). "Tsunami Simulations of the 1867 Virgin Island Earthquake: Constraints...
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    1924. On 3 March 1933, much of the town was destroyed by the 1933 Sanriku earthquake, which killed 911 people and destroyed over 98% of the buildings in...
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    with the Kitakami Mountains to the west. Its coastline forms part of the Sanriku Fukkō National Park, which stretches north to Aomori Prefecture. Ishinomaki...
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    of the coast of southern Sanriku and encompassed Mount Kinka. On 31 March 2015, in the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Park was...
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    recorded as early as the 869 Sanriku earthquake. The 1611 Sanriku earthquake also caused major damage and the 1896 Sanriku earthquake destroyed most of the village...
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    municipality system. The area was devastated by the 1896 Sanriku earthquake and the 1933 Sanriku earthquake. Kesen and Takata merged with the neighboring town...
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  • this earthquake was about 28×1020 N m. The 1960s was noted as one of the peak periods of interplate seismic moment release in the offshore Sanriku region...
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    Megathrust earthquakes are large seismic events that take place along convergent plate boundaries, particularly at subduction zones. Examples of subduction...
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    caused by the 1896 Sanriku earthquake, 1933 Sanriku earthquake and the 1960 Valdivia earthquake. However, in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the...
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    misattributed to a Peruvian earthquake the same year. Historical records support the occurrence of a tsunami along the Sanriku coast in June 1585, which...
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    land area of the prefecture was designated as Natural Parks, namely the Sanriku Fukkō National Park; Kurikoma and Zaō Quasi-National Parks; and Abukuma...
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  • natural disaster to affect Japan by death toll was the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, which killed ~105,000 and a further ~6,000 due to the Kantō Massacre...
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    This list of 20th-century earthquakes is a list of earthquakes of magnitude 6 and above that occurred in the 20th century. Sone smaller events which nevertheless...
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