Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

NOAA Energy Plot

See the Main Event Page: Tohoku (East Coast of Honshu) Tsunami, March 11, 2011     Figure 1. Energy plot of the M8.9 earthquake distributed over the Pacific Ocean.  

Strong Motion Data from K-NET and KiK-net

Download the Strong Motion Data: http://www.kyoshin.bosai.go.jp/cgi-bin/kyoshin/bigeqs/index.cgi?E Read about K-NET and KiK-net: http://www.kyoshin.bosai.go.jp/kyoshin/docs/overview_kyoshin_index_en.html

Earthquake Space-Time Sequence Plot

  Figure 1. Japan Trench earthquake space-time sequence plot.     Download the Plot: Earthquake Space-Time Sequence Plot (0.18 MB PDF)

Pre- and Post-Disaster Imagery in Google Street View

Access Google’s digital archive of Northeastern Japan areas affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami: Experience the tsunami-affected areas of Japan through Street View (The Google map will automatically start you in street view, so you can click and drag the image to explore the street view.) Compare the street views for before and after the […]

The M9.0 Japan Earthquake: Lessons for California and San Diego

  Video 1. The M9.0 Japan Earthquake: Lessons for California and San Diego from EERI on Vimeo.  The video includes the following panel of distinguished speakers who provided an overview and responded to questions at this meeting: Dr. Jorge Meneses (Kleinfelder) – provided an overview of the mega-earthquake and tsunami, and presented his findings and observations from […]