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Outside Japan the earthquake and disaster are commonly referred to as the Kobe earthquake; in Japan, the earthquake and the disaster caused by it is called The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster (阪神・淡路大震災, Hanshin-Awaji Daishinsai), often shortened to The Great Hanshin Earthquake Disaster (阪神大震災, Hanshin ...
In Japan, the Shindo scale is commonly used to measure earthquakes by seismic intensity instead of magnitude. This is similar to the Modified Mercalli intensity scale used in the United States or the Liedu scale used in China, meaning that the scale measures the intensity of an earthquake at a given location instead of measuring the energy an earthquake releases at its epicenter (its magnitude ...
Research comparing the old JMA seismic intensity scale (using sensory data from the 1968 Tokachi earthquake to the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, including experimental instrumental data in the 1990s) and the instrumental seismic intensities calculated based on the current methods has been conducted. According to this research, for intensities ...
- On Jan. 16, 1995, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 hit central Japan, devastating the western port city of Kobe. The worst earthquake to hit the country in 50 years killed more than 6,400 ...
Earthquake 11 Nov 1855: Tokyo: Also known as the great Edo earthquake. 6,434: Great Hanshin earthquake: Earthquake 17 Jan 1995: Awaji Island, near Kobe: Also known as the Kobe earthquake. 5,098: Typhoon Vera: Typhoon and tidal surge 26 Sep 1959: mainly, Ise Bay, Aichi Prefecture and Mie Prefecture: Also known as the Ise Bay Typhoon. 3,769: 1948 ...
0–9. 1993 Kushiro earthquake; 1993 Okushiri earthquake; 1994 offshore Sanriku earthquake; 1995 Kobe earthquake; 2000 Tottori earthquake; 2001 Geiyo earthquake
A pie chart comparing the seismic moment release of the three largest earthquakes for the hundred-year period from 1906 to 2005 with that for all earthquakes of magnitudes <6, 6 to 7, 7 to 8, and >8 for the same period. The 2011 Japan quake would be roughly similar to Sumatra. Earthquakes of magnitude 8.0 and greater from 1900 to 2018.
The 1995 Colima–Jalisco earthquake was an 8.0 M w earthquake which occurred on October 9, 1995, at 15:36 UTC, off the coast of Jalisco, Mexico, with least 49 people dead and 100 more injured. The earthquake triggered a tsunami, which affected a 200 km coast. [59] The Cihuatlan-Manzanillo area, Colima, was more severely affected than other areas.