1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake
UTC time | 1952-11-04 16:58:30 |
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ISC event | 893648 |
USGS-ANSS | ComCat |
Local date | November 5, 1952 |
Local time | 04:58:30[1] |
Magnitude | 8.5 Ms, 9.0 Mw [2][3] |
Depth | 21.6 km (13 mi) |
Epicenter | 52°18′N 161°00′E / 52.3°N 161.0°E [2] |
Max. intensity | MMI XI (Extreme)[2] |
Tsunami | 18 m (59 ft) [4] |
Casualties | 2,336 dead |
The 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake struck off the coast of the
Tectonic setting
The earthquake occurred off the Kamchatka Peninsula's east coast, which runs parallel to the
Earthquake
The earthquake ruptured a patch of the subduction zone which extends from the northern portion of Onekotan to Cape Shipunskii; approximately 700 km long. The rupture width is estimated at around 150–200 km. Slip on the rupture patch occurred in a direction perpendicular to the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench.[9]
Two years prior to the mainshock, a sequence of foreshocks commenced near the epicenter location, as well as the southern edge of the rupture. The aftershock sequence one month after the mainshock was used to define the northern extent of slip.[9]
Tsunami
A
US property damage
The main economic damage came from the tsunami waves impacting the
See also
References
- ^ a b "Сливное землетрясение (цунами) 1952 года" [The 1952 drainage earthquake (tsunami)]. Local history bulletin 4 (in Russian). Sakhalin Regional Museum of Local Lore and the Sakhalin Branch of the All-Russian Cultural Fund. 1991. Archived from the original on 2010-04-20. Retrieved 2020-10-17.
- ^ ISBN 978-0124406520
- ^ "More Info #1829". Tsunami Event Information. NOAA. Retrieved 2022-09-19.
- ^ USGS (4 September 2009), PAGER-CAT Earthquake Catalog, Version 2008_06.1, United States Geological Survey
- ^ "M 9.0 - off the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia". earthquake.usgs.gov. Archived from the original on 2020-10-08. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
- ^ Chubarov L.B.; V. K. Gusiakov. "Tsunamis and earthquake mechanism in the island arc region". Science of Tsunami Hazards. 3 (1): 3–21.
- ^ V.K. Gusiakov (2000). "Two great kamchatka tsunamis, 1737 and 1952" (PDF) (paper). Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences: IUGG Tsunami Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ^ Alexander A Gusev; L.S. Shumilina (2004). "Recurrence of Kamchatka strong earthquakes on a scale of moment magnitudes" (PDF). Izvestiya Physics of the Solid Earth. 40 (3): 206–215.
- ^ a b MacInnes et al. 2010.
- ^ a b "1952 Kamchatka Tsunami". Western States Seismic Policy Council. Retrieved 2020-10-05.
- ^ "Засекреченное цунами" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-02-06.
- ^ "M 9.0 - 89 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia". USGS. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
Sources
- MacInnes, B. T.; Weiss, R.; Bourgeois, J.; Pinegina, T. K. (2010), "Slip Distribution of the 1952 Kamchatka Great Earthquake Based on Near-Field Tsunami Deposits and Historical Records" (PDF), Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 100 (4): 1695–1709,
External links
- (in Russian) Сливное землетрясение (цунами) 1952 года
- The International Seismological Centre has a bibliography and/or authoritative data for this event.