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The Great Hanshin Earthquake occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region known as Hanshin.It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum intensity of 7 on the JMA Seismic Intensity Scale (XI–XII on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale). [6]
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 ...
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 ...
The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Memorial Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution (阪神・淡路大震災記念 人と防災未来センター) is the earthquake disaster memorial museum that located in Chūō-ku, Kobe (HAT Kobe), Hyōgo Prefecture in Japan.
Take the Toji temple’s 180-foot (55-meter) tall pagoda, constructed in the 17th century near Kyoto — it famously emerged intact from the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake, also known as the Kobe ...
ShakeMap for the 2001 Nisqually earthquake In seismology , strong ground motion is the strong earthquake shaking that occurs close to (less than about 50 km from) a causative fault . The strength of the shaking involved in strong ground motion usually overwhelms a seismometer , forcing the use of accelerographs (or strong ground motion ...
The United States Geological Survey developed an Instrumental Intensity scale, ... 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake: 0.8 g [35] 7.2 12 km 222 2013 Bohol earthquake: 0.65 ...
Unless otherwise noted, magnitudes are reported on the Moment magnitude scale (M w). Country/Territory ... 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake: Japan: 6.9 $200 billion [211] 3