1959 Kamchatka earthquake
UTC time | 1959-05-04 07:15:47 |
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ISC event | 881925 |
USGS-ANSS | ComCat |
Local date | May 4, 1959 |
Local time | 19:15 |
Magnitude | 8.25 Ms, 8.0–8.3 Mw |
Depth | 20–60 km (12–37 mi) |
Epicenter | 53°22′N 159°40′E / 53.37°N 159.66°E [1] |
Areas affected | USSR |
Max. intensity | MSK-64 VIII (Damaging) |
Casualties | 1 killed, 13 injured [2] |
The 1959 Kamchatka earthquake occurred on May 4 at 19:15 local time with a moment magnitude of 8.0–8.3, and a surface wave magnitude of 8.25. The epicenter was near the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian SFSR, USSR. Building damage was reported in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.[2][3] The maximum intensity was VIII (Damaging) on the Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale.[4] The intensity in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky was about VIII MSK.
The earthquake triggered a tsunami with 0.2 meters (7.9 in) of runup that was recorded in Massacre Bay, Alaska, in the United States.[5] Subduction is active along about the southern half of the eastern coast of Kamchatka Peninsula, between its junctions with the Aleutian Islands and the Kuril Islands.[6]
Tectonic setting
Kamchatka lies near a large convergent boundary—the
Earthquake
The earthquake struck at 7:15
Tsunami
The tsunami was small, which was expected for the size of the earthquake. Run-ups of 1.5–2 m (4 ft 11 in – 6 ft 7 in) were recorded, and at the Honolulu tide gauge, readings of 0.1 m (3.9 in) above the tide were also recorded.[10] Readings of 0.2 m (7.9 in) run-ups in Hawaii were reported as well.[18] In Massacre Bay, Alaska, run-ups of up to 0.2 m (7.9 in) were recorded.[5]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Engdahl & Vallaseñor 2002.
- ^ a b Office of Technical Services (1959), Information on Soviet Bloc International Geophysical Cooperation – 1959, United States Department of Commerce, p. 5, archived from the original on 2012-09-28, retrieved 2019-02-17
- ^ Putintsev 2005.
- ^ a b Klyachko, M.; Gordeev, Y.; Kolosova, F. (2002), World Housing Encyclopedia Report (PDF), Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, p. 12
- ^ a b The great Alaska earthquake of 1964, Vol. 5 by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Alaska Earthquake
- ^ Park et al. 2002.
- ^ a b c d Bürgmann et al. 2005.
- ^ Gusiakov 2000.
- ^ Rebecca Morelle (12 December 2013). "Enormous earthquakes 'are missing' from records". BBC News. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
- ^ a b Bourgeois & Pinegina 2017.
- ^ a b MacInnes et al. 2010.
- ^ Purcaru & Berckhemer 1982.
- ^ McCaffrey 1993.
- ^ Abe 1981.
- ^ Kanamori 1977.
- ^ Kelleher, Sykes & Oliver 1973.
- ^ Lay, Kanamori & Ruff 1982.
- ^ Walker 2005.
Sources
- Engdahl, E. R.; Vallaseñor, A. (2002). "Global seismicity: 1900–1999". International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology (PDF). Part A, Volume 81A (First ed.). ISBN 978-0124406520.
- Park, J.; Levin, V.; Brandon, M.; Lees, J.; Peyton, V.; Gordeev, E.; Ozerov, A. (2002), "A dangling slab, amplified arc volcanism, mantle flow and seismic anisotropy in the Kamchatka plate corner" (PDF), Plate Boundary Zones (First ed.), ISBN 978-0875905327
- Putintsev, Y. O. (2005), "Harbingers of landslide in Ryabikovskaya Street, 81 (Petropavlovsk–Kamchatski)", Bulletin of Kamchatka Resional Association, 6 (2): 133
- Kanamori, Hiroo (10 July 1977). "The energy release in great earthquakes". Journal of Geophysical Research. 82 (20): 2981–2987. . Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- Bürgmann, Roland; Kogan, Mikhail G.; Steblov, Grigory M.; Hilley, George; Levin, Vasily E.; Apel, Edwin (19 July 2005). "Interseismic coupling and asperity distribution along the Kamchatka subduction zone". Journal of Geophysical Research. 110 (B7). S2CID 129123498.
- Gusiakov, V.K. (2000). "Two great kamchatka tsunamis, 1737 and 1952" (PDF). Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences: IUGG Tsunami Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
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- Bourgeois, Joanne; Pinegina, Tatiana K. (2017). "The 1997 Kronotsky earthquake and tsunami and their predecessors, Kamchatka, Russia" (PDF). Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 18 (1): 335–350. .
- 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,
- Walker, Daniel A. (January 2005). "OCEAN-WIDE TSUNAMIS, MAGNITUDE THRESHOLDS, AND 1946 TYPE EVENTS". Science of Tsunami Hazards. 23 (2): 3–6. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.537.5859.
- McCaffrey, Robert (10 July 1993). "On the role of the upper plate in great subduction zone earthquakes". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 98 (B7): 11953–11966. . Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- Purcaru, G.; Berckhemer, H. (10 April 1982). "Quantitative relations of seismic source parameters and a classification of earthquakes". Tectonophysics. 84 (1): 57–128. . Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- Lay, Thorne; Kanamori, Hiroo; Ruff, Larry J. (1982). "The Asperity Model and the Nature of Large Subduction Zone Earthquakes". Earthquake Prediction Research. 1 (1): 3–71. ISSN 0286-0619. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- Abe, Katsuyuki (October 1981). "Magnitudes of large shallow earthquakes from 1904 to 1980". Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 27 (1): 72–92. . Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- Kelleher, John; Sykes, Lynn; Oliver, Jack (10 May 1973). "Possible criteria for predicting earthquake locations and their application to major plate boundaries of the Pacific and the Caribbean". Journal of Geophysical Research. 78 (14): 2547–2585. . Retrieved 9 October 2022.
External links
- The International Seismological Centre has a bibliography and/or authoritative data for this event.