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🌎 2019 M6.4 Yamagata earthquake

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📂 The repository

This repository hosts detailed information about the 2019 M6.4 Yamagata earthquake in Japan.

Available information in the folders:

  • Impact
  • Recording stations
  • Ruptrues
  • OpenQuake_gmfs

🚀 The earthquake at a glance

The 2019 Yamagata earthquake struck at 22:22 JST (13:22 UTC) on 18 June 2019 with an estimated magnitude of Mw6.4 Wikipedia.

According to official Japanese statistics, the earthquake caused 9 serious injuries and 34 minor injuries. Additionally, 28 houses were partially destroyed and 1,580 partially damaged.

Type of sequence

No notes of damaging aftershocks were discovered.

Occurrence of other phenomena:

Tsunami (up to 10cm)

Ground shaking

The estimation of the ground shaking has The folder OpenQuake_gmfs stores the required input files to generate the ground motion fields considering different rupture solutions and conditioning the ground shaking to the recording stations for the event, when available. The figures below present an example of the results, showing the median ground motion fields with and without conditioning the ground shaking for the rupture and ground motion model that indicates the lowest nominal bias.

☄️ Consequences

The information collected for the consequences of the event and the corresponding references is available in the Impact folder. When available, information at different geographical levels is provided considering the building damage, economic losses and human impact.

A summary of the main consequences of the event is available in the earthquake_information.csv file:

FIELD DESCRIPTION
Year 2019
Country Japan
Region Yamagata
Event_Name Yamagata_2019
Local_Date 18/06/2019
Local_Time 22:22:20
Latitude 38.639
Longitude 139.477
Depth_(km) 12
Mw 6.4
Max_Intensity_(MMI) VII
Fault_mechanism Reverse
Tectonic_region_type Active Shallow Crustal
Fatalities 0
Injured 28-43
Displaced_Population 45-840
Affected_Population 432
Affected_Units nan
Damaged_Units 144-1608 Buildings
Collapsed_Units nan
Economic_Losses nan
Insured_Losses nan
Induced_Effects Tsunami
USGS page https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us600042fx/executive
Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Yamagata_earthquake

🌟 Contributors

We would like to acknowledge the many contributors to the Earthquake Consequence Database.