Help with Quake Project?
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For a Geology Class project I have to do a write up on an Earthquake that has
taken place in ASIA. Does anyone have the name of a major Quake? Even better,
does any one have any information on: 1) Location of Quake. 2) Magnitude. 3)
Focus 4) Epicenter 5) Casualties 6) Characteristics.
Thanks for any help!
Dan
Dan,
Both Japan and mainland China are frequent victims of earthquakes. China had a
7.5 magnitude quake in Liaoning Province in 1975 that is noteworthy mainly
because it was the first to be predicted accurately, and an evacuation before
the quake resulted in very few casualties. A 7.6 quake in 1976 in Tangshan,
China, was not predicted and caused an estimated 650,000 deaths.
Japan has seen several major quakes in this century, including one in Tokyo in
1923 that's estimated at 8.2 magnitude and killed 150,000. Another occurred in
the Tokai area (the south-central coastal area) in December 1944, but
apparently not much is known about that one because it happened amid the
general chaos of wartime Japan.
More than that I don't know. You'd probably have to do some research to come
up with much more.
Jon W.
Hi, Dan–
Welcome to the forum!
I do not know if it will have what you are after, but 800-358-2663 is a number
I picked up from earlier forum messages for USGS seismology and geomagnetic
data. Use 1200 bps and N-8-1 (no parity, 8 bits, 1 stop bit) modem settings.
For 9600 bps (baud) use phone 1-703-648-4168. I have not tried this myself.
–Doug
If you don't get other answers to your question about details on any earthquake
in asia, you might try looking up the 1932(?) Tokyo earthquake. Since it was a
large quake in a major city, you might be able to dredge some data out of
encyclopedias and good history books. I believe the epicenter was somewhere
near downtown Tokyo. I do know that one of the results is that the really tall
buildings in Tokyo are built in the outlying Shinjuku district — 15km from
downtown. For whatever reason, it was relatively undamaged in that quake, and
when the Japanese started building large buildings in the 1960s, they hoped
that the geology there is such that earthquake forces are moderated.
Don Kenneys quake was indeed a big one — Sept 1, 1923. There was a book about
it called "Two Minutes till Noon," in reference to the time of occurrence.
Sorry I don't recall the author.
Good luck, Dick Gibson