Kumamoto Earthquake
Local site effects in Kumamoto City revealed by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake
... in Kumamoto City, we installed six temporary seismic stations along a 6-km north–south survey line in the city immediately after the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake foreshock (Mj ...2016 Kumamoto ...
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Characteristics of the surface ruptures associated with the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence, central Kyushu, Japan
... 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence started with a M J (Japan Meteorological Agency magnitude) ...the earthquake to map the extent and displacement of surface ruptures with the following ...
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Rupture process of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake in relation to the thermal structure around Aso volcano
... 2016 Kumamoto earthquake, we applied the inversion formu- lation developed by Yagi and Fukahata (2011a) to tel- eseismic ...tsunami earthquake (Yagi and Fukahata 2011a), the 2011 Tohoku-oki ...
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Remote triggering of seismicity at Japanese volcanoes following the 2016 M7 3 Kumamoto earthquake
... Noto earthquake; Asano and Iwata 2011). The Love waves from the Kumamoto earthquake, arriving from an almost parallel direction to the Noto fault plane (of SW–NE direction, dip angle of 60 o —Asano ...
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Effects of finite source rupture on landslide triggering: the 2016 Mw 7.1 Kumamoto earthquake
... Detailed landslide data are provided by NIED as polygons (Fig. 1), mapped from aerial imagery with sub-metre res- olution at different times after the Kumamoto earthquake. The first data set contains ...
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Detection of collapsed buildings from lidar data due to the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake in Japan
... the Kumamoto earthquake sequence where significant permanent ground displacements were produced during the ...the Kumamoto earthquake are also shown (Geospatial Informa- tion Authority of ...
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Estimation of shallow S wave velocity structure using microtremor array exploration at temporary strong motion observation stations for aftershocks of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake
... Tohoku earthquake, the velocity of shal- low soil was decreased about 5% and it took more than a month to recover the S-wave velocity (Nakata and Snieder ...2016 Kumamoto earthquake and how long did ...
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Rupture process of the main shock of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake with special reference to damaging ground motions: waveform inversion with empirical Green’s functions
... The bottom two panels of Fig. 14 show the correspond- ing final slip distributions. The results are similar to that of Case 1 in spite of the different strike and dip angles; the results imply that the basic features of ...
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Near fault deformation and Dc″ during the 2016 Mw7 1 Kumamoto earthquake
... the Kumamoto earthquake sequence started at 21:26:34 on April 14, 2016 (JST, UT+9h), with an ...Mw6.1 earthquake that occurred on the Hinagu ...Mw7.1 earthquake initiated at 01:25:05 on April ...
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Source rupture processes of the foreshock and mainshock in the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence estimated from the kinematic waveform inversion of strong motion data
... The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence started with an M JMA 6.5 foreshock occurring along the northern part of the Hinagu fault, central Kyushu, Japan, and the M JMA 7.3 mainshock occurred just 28 h after ...
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Simultaneous estimation of the dip angles and slip distribution on the faults of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake through a weak nonlinear inversion of InSAR data
... We did not use GNSS data in the inversion analysis, because our primal objective is to develop a method that can be used for a remote area, where dense GNSS and seismic networks are unavailable. We compare the synthetic ...
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Effect of newly refined hypocenter locations on the seismic activity recorded during the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake sequence
... A cluster of seismicity at the western bound of the Beppu–Haneyama fault zone formed a NW–SE-trending line of about 10 km (marked “f” and with arrows in the map in Fig. 4). For events in this NW–SE-trending clus- ter ...
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Fault source model for the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence based on ALOS 2/PALSAR 2 pixel offset data: evidence for dynamic slip partitioning
... Previous geological and geodetic observations pointed out the presence of Beppu-Shimabara rift system across the Kyushu island (Ehara 1992; Matsumoto 1979; Tada 1993), along which the NE–SW trending seismicity of the ...
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SPH-based numerical modeling for the post-failure behavior of the landslides triggered by the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake
... ability to account for bed entrainment, rheology vari- ation, nonhydrostatic and anisotropic internal stress states. Huang et al. (2011; 2012) presented an SPH model combined with Navier-Stokes equations to pre- dict the ...
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Crustal deformation associated with the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake and its effect on the magma system of Aso volcano
... 6.5 earthquake (foreshock) and M JMA 7.3 earthquake (mainshock) struck Kumamoto Prefecture on April 14, 2016, and April 16, ...the earthquake on the Aso magma sys- tem, we detected crustal ...
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Strong motions observed by K NET and KiK net during the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence
... of earthquake disaster, it is highly important to reliably record the strong motions even in the severe condition and transfer the recorded data immediately to the data management center and to the users in order ...
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Numerical simulations to explain the coseismic electromagnetic signals: a case study for a M5 4 aftershock of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake
... the Kumamoto earthquake occurred at 01:25 (in JST) on April 16, ...the Kumamoto earthquake focal ...2016 Kumamoto earthquake ...
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Applicability of source scaling relations for crustal earthquakes to estimation of the ground motions of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake
... We collected slip distributions inverted by the strong- motion data of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake and extracted the rupture and asperity areas from the wave- form inversion results. Then, we examined ...
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Underground structures associated with horizontal sliding at Uchinomaki hot springs, Kyushu, Japan, during the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake
... 2016 Kumamoto earthquake caused serious dam- age over a wide area of central Kyushu Island, ...The earthquake caused large crus- tal deformation, and new movements on many exposed faults were ...
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Continuity, segmentation and faulting type of active fault zones of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake inferred from analyses of a gravity gradient tensor
... uted across the fault zone with a NW–SE trend (Figs. 6, 8). This suggests that a 2D-like subsurface structure, such as a fault, is discontinuous at this boundary. Also, the active area of the aftershocks does not extend ...
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