Eastern Honshu, Japan Earthquake of July 26, 2003
uploaded on July 28, 2003
updated on July 29, 2003
Mainshock
- Origin time: July 25, 2003 22:13:31.5 UTC (JMA), 22:13:34 UTC (USGS) (July 26 07:13 Local time)
- Location: 038°24.1'N 141°10.5'E (JMA), 38.52N 140.96E (USGS)
- Depth: 12km (JMA), 33 km (USGS)
- Magnitude: 6.2 (JMA), 6.1 (USGS)
Foreshock and Aftershock
Major Foreshock
- Origin time: July 25, 2003 00:13:08.3 UTC (JMA), 15:13:11 UTC (USGS) (July 26 00:13 Local time)
- Location: 038°25.9'N 141°10.1'E (JMA), 38.43N 140.96E (USGS)
- Depth: 12km (JMA), 33 km (USGS)
- Magnitude: 5.5 (JMA), 5.3 (USGS)
Major Aftershock
- Origin time: July 25, 2003 07:56:44.5 UTC (JMA), 07:56:47 UTC (USGS) (July 26 16:56 Local time)
- Location: 038°29.8'N 141°11.6'E (JMA), 38.55N 140.96E (USGS)
- Depth: 12km (JMA), 33 km (USGS)
- Magnitude: 5.3 (JMA), 5.4 (USGS)
Damage
- Personal Injury: Dead 0, Severely Injured 15, Injured 576
- Damage on Residential Houses: Severe 88, Moderate 389, Partial 5811
As of July 28 19:20, cf. http://www.fdma.go.jp/html/infor/index.html
Information in our site
- Preliminary Results of Rupture Process by Dr. Yagi (Japanese viersion)
- Disastrous Earthquakes in Eastern Honshu Area (From Utsu Catalogue, in Japanese)
- CMT solution determined by Direct Solution Method by Dr. Hara (coming soon)
- Prompt report on BRI Strong Motion Observation
- Japan in the Information Network of Earthquake Disaster Prevention Technologies, IISEE
Direct links
- Mainshock, USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Foreshock, USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Aftershock, USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- NIED Special page (Japanese)
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
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