Significant Earthquake

Date Earthquake Location Earthquake Parameters
Focal
Depth		 Magnitude MMI Int
Year Mo Dy Hr Mn Sec Name Latitude Longitude Mw Ms Mb Ml Mfa Unk
1994 10 4 13 22 55.8 RUSSIA: KURIL ISLANDS; JAPAN: HOKKAIDO 43.773 147.321 14 8.3 8.1 7.3
Significant Earthquake
Earthquake Effects Total Effects (Earthquake and Tsunami, Volcano, etc.)
Deaths Missing Injuries Damage Houses
Destroyed		 Houses
Damaged		 Deaths Missing Injuries Damage Houses
Destroyed		 Houses
Damaged
Num De Num De Num De $Mill De Num De Num De Num De Num De Num De $Mill De Num De Num De
11 1 382 3 11700.000 4 11 1 382 3 11700.000 4


Comments for the Significant Earthquake

Comments for the Significant Earthquake

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On October 4, 1994, a magnitude 8.1 Ms (Mw 8.3) (HRV) earthquake at 13:23 UT in the southern Kuril Islands, Russia, caused at least eleven fatalities, none due to the tsunami, and 242 injuries mostly due to collapsing of a military hospital on Iturup Island. There were 140 people injured in Japan, including one woman whose car plunged off a collapsed bridge and one man who died of a heart attack. The earthquake generated a tsunami. (reference #1315)

At least 10 people killed or missing, many injured and damage on Iturup. Considerable damage (IX) on Shikotan from the earthquake and tsunami. Damage also occurred on Kunashir. Felt (IV) at Kurilsk; (III) at Severo-Kurilsk and on Matua; (II) on Simushir. One person died from a heart attack, at least 200 people were injured and extensive damage and landslides occurred along the eastern coast of Hokkaido. Felt strongly in northern Honshu and as far south as the Tokyo area. Tsunami wave heights from selected tide stations (peak-to-trough) were as follows: 346 cm. at Hanasaki, 164 cm. at Kushiro, 26 cm. at Abashiri, Hokkaido; 144 cm. at Miyako, 130 cm. at Hachinohe, 92 cm. at Ofunato, 62 cm. at Onahama, 46 cm. at Omae-zaki, 42 cm. at Choshi, Honshu; 162 cm. on Chichi-shima; 300 cm. at Yuzhno-Kurilsk, Kunashir Island, 15 cm. on Shemya, 16 cm. at Pago Pago, American Samoa, 17 cm. on Wake Island, 50 cm. on Midway Island and 48 cm. at Hilo, Hawaii. (reference #1053)

11 deaths, 242 injuries in Russia; 10 deaths, 340 injuries, $11,700 million damage in Japan. (reference #1250)


References for the Significant Earthquake

References for the Significant Earthquake

ID Author Year Citation
1053 National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) 1971 to present Preliminary Determination of Epicenters (PDE), a weekly and monthly publication, National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, Colorado, 1971 to present.
1250 Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) and the U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) 2001 EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, link
1315 Lander, J. F., L. S. Whiteside, and P. A. Lockridge 2003 Two Decades of Global Tsunamis, 1982-2002, Science of Tsunami Hazards, the International Journal of the Tsunami Society, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, vol. 21, no. 1, p. 3-82.