Near East Coast of Honshu Earthquake, Japan

Mainshock

• Origin time: May 26, 2003 09:24:32 UTC (18:24 Local Time, USGS)
• Location: 38.90N 141.45E (USGS), 38°48.3'N, 141°40.9'E (JMA)
• Depth: 68.2 km (USGS), 71 km (JMA)
• Magnitude: 7.0 (USGS, JMA)

Damage

• Personal Injury: Dead 0, Severely Injured 20, Injured 146
• Residential Building Damage: Completely Destroyed 2, Partially Destroyed 1291, Fire 2
• Other Building Damage: Completely Destroyed 0, Partially Destroyed 485
• Other Structural Damage: Educational Facility 440, Medical Facility 85, Road Facility (Slope Failure, etc) 122
  As of May 29, cf. http://www.fdma.go.jp/html/infor/index.html

Information in our site

• Preliminary Results of Rupture Process by Dr. Yagi (Japanese viersion)
• CMT solution determined by Direct Solution Method by Dr. Hara
• Prompt report on Strong Motion Observation
• Japan in the Information Network of Earthquake Disaster Prevention Technologies, IISEE

Direct links

• USGS National Earthquake Information Center

Earthquake catalogs in our site

• IISEE's CMTs, Aftershock Distributions, Fault planes, and Rupture processes for recent large earthquakes in the world
• Catalog of Damaging Earthquakes in the World (from ancient times through June, 2009)

Institutions

• United States Geological Survey (USGS), USA
• Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS)