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Strong Motion Records from CESMD

See the Website: Chile Coquimbo Offshore Earthquake of 16 September 2015 Ericson Encina Zuniga, PhD Student at University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Ground Motion Assessment Summary

    Figure 1. Historical seismicity of Chile – Source: CSN     Several seismic motions have been felt since the main 8.4 Mw magnitude earthquake on 16 September 16 at 7:45 p.m. local Chilean time. As per 2 October, CSN had processed around 1100 aftershocks with magnitudes over 3.0, being the largest aftershock the one occurred […]

Kumamoto Earthquake Reconnaissance Briefing Videos

  The videos in the series are: Damage to Highway Bridges, by Denis Istrati, University of Nevada, Reno Ground Motions and Early Warning, by Masumi Yamada, DPRI Kyoto University Soil and Structure Damages under Extreme Ground Motion, by Hiroyuki Goto, DPRI, Kyoto University Societal Impacts: Sheltering & Volunteers, by James Goltz, DPRI, Kyoto University.     Kumamoto Earthquake Damage to […]

Overview of Damage to Roads and Bridges in Nishihara Area

Overview of Nishihara Area Nishihara area is located 10km northeast from Mashiki town and faces Minami-Aso village on its east end. The area is located on the Futagawa fault zone which showed slips around 2m at the ground surface (right strike-slip fault) [1]. The activity of the Futagawa fault caused severe damage to roads and […]

Ground motions of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake

Overview of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake caused severe damage to Kumamoto area, Japan. Due to the shallow depth of epicenter, the particularly severe damage was caused in Mashiki town located 10km away from Kumamoto city. The earthquake consists of two strong ground motions (9:26pmJST on 4/14 and 1:25amJST on 4/16) and a […]

Seismic Wave Propagation Model

Citation: Kaneko Y, Tape C, Casarotti E. 2016. 2016 M7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake Computer Simulation. GNS Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.21420/G27P4P   Video 1.