Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Report

1. Earthquake Mj6.5 earthquake event hit Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, at 21:26, April 14th (local time: GMT+09), 2016. Second Mj7.3 earthquake event hit Kumamoto and Oita prefectures at 01:46, April 16th (local time: GMT+09). The epicenters were estimated in about 10km distance, and the hypocenter depths were 11km and 12km, respectively [1,2]. Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) […]

Learning from Earthquakes Mission: Kumamoto Earthquake 2016, Japan

 Introduction A 4 member team from the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, comprising Dr Gabriele Chiaro, Dr Chris Massey, Gavin Alexander and P Brabhaharan, left New Zealand on 6th May and arrived in Oita, Japan on the evening of 7th May 2016. The team joined Prof Junichi Koseki and three colleagues (Tamoko Sasaki, Naoya […]