List of earthquake articles

Kagoshima University Hospital, training for injured people assuming the damage caused by the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant

 Kagoshima University Hospital conducted response training on the assumption that the Sendai Nuclear Power Station in Satsumasendai City, Kagoshima Prefecture was damaged by a large-scale earthquake and injured.Teaching […]

A huge earthquake off the coast of Mexico destroyed the entire plate, Kyoto University and others elucidated-Japan's earthquake also needs to be reassessed

 International collaborative research groups (Japan, USA, China, Mexico) such as Kyoto University and Oregon State University departed off Mexico in September 2017 […]

Tohoku University elucidates the structure of the rift zone that divides Kyushu from north to south

 A joint research group led by Professor Zhao Da Peng of Tohoku University surveyed the entire area of ​​Kyushu, targeting the epicenter area of ​​the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes. "Beppu-Shimabara […]

Do Nankai and Tokai earthquakes always occur in pairs?Fossil perforated bivalve evidence of a major earthquake

 A research group led by Professor Akihisa Kitamura of Shizuoka University and Researcher Takuma Haga of the National Museum of Nature and Science found fossils of perforated double shells found at the wave dining table in Omaezaki. […]

Discovered a fixed area between plates off the southern coast of the main island of Okinawa, fear of a huge earthquake Nagoya University, etc.

 The research group of Associate Professor Keiichi Tadokoro of Nagoya University, Professor Mamoru Nakamura of Ryukyu University, and Visiting Professor Masataka Ando of Shizuoka University is the Ryukyu Trench to the south of the main island of Okinawa […]

Elucidation of water movement due to "slow slip" in the epicenter area Tokyo Institute of Technology and Tohoku University

 Professor Junichi Nakajima of Tokyo Institute of Technology and Associate Professor Naoki Uchida of Tohoku University reported an earthquake that occurred around the upper boundary of the Philippine Sea Plate in the southwestern part of Ibaraki Prefecture […]

Kagawa University and NEC start joint research on disaster mitigation science from January 2018

 Kagawa University conducts research on disaster mitigation science * in wide-area natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis with a donation from NEC Corporation (NEC) "[...]

Measuring spatiotemporal fluctuations in the deep crust caused by the Kumamoto earthquake Kyushu University

 The International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, announced the Kumamoto earthquake (magnitude […]] that occurred in April 2016.

Started joint research with Kyoto University and Fuji Disaster Prevention Security Giant Earthquake Prediction System

 Kyoto University and Fuji Disaster Prevention Security Co., Ltd. have announced a giant earthquake prediction system "SC [...]" that detects earthquake-preceding phenomena before a giant earthquake such as the Nankai Trough earthquake occurs.

Discovered the relationship between the period of earthquake occurrence and the formation time of quartz veins Tohoku University, etc.

 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and Tohoku University have developed a new computational model to calculate the time for quartz precipitation in rock cracks around faults that cause earthquakes […]