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Table 4 Major earthquakes around the Shionohara baseline and calculated baseline changes

From: Triangulation scale error caused by the 1894 Shonai earthquake: a possible cause of erroneous interpretation of seismic potential along the Japan Trench

Earthquake

Magnitude (Mw)

Coseismic (mm)

Postseismic (mm)

References

1894/10/22 Shonai *

6.8

+ 50.3

− 2.5

 
 

7.0

+ 100.5

− 4.9

 

1896/6/15 Sanriku

8.5

+ 3.0

+ 1.1

Tanioka and Satake (1996)

1896/8/31 Rikuu

7.2

+ 3.2

− 5.2

Thatcher et al. (1980)

1897/8/5 Miyagi-oki

7.7

+ 1.4

+ 0.6

Aida (1977)

1900/5/12 Northern Miyagi

6.2

+ 0.1

+ 0.1

Takemura (2005)

1933/3/3 Sanriku

8.4

− 3.5

− 3.0

Abe (1978)

1936/11/3 Miyagi-oki

7.2

+ 0.6

+ 0.1

Yamanaka and Kikuchi (2004)

1937/7/27 Miyagi-oki

7.1

+ 0.1

0.0

Yamanaka and Kikuchi (2004)

1938/5/23–1938/11/7 Shioyazaki-oki

7.0, 7.5, 7.3,7.4, 6.9

− 0.6

− 0.4

Abe (1977)

1962/4/30 Northern Miyagi

6.2

+ 0.5

+ 0.6

Sato (1989)

1964/6/16 Niigata

7.6

+ 8.0

+ 3.0

Abe (1975)

1968/5/16 Tokachi-oki

8.2

− 0.4

− 0.5

Aida (1978)

1970/10/16 SE Akita

6.2

− 0.2

0.0

Mikumo (1974)

1978/6/12 Miyagi-oki

7.5

+ 1.5

− 0.5

Seno et al. (1980)

1983/5/26 Japan Sea

7.7

− 1.1

− 0.4

Sato (1985)

2003/7/26 Northern Miyagi

6.1

+ 0.1

0.0

Nishimura et al. (2003)

2005/8/16 Miyagi-oki

7.2

+ 0.6

0.0

GSI (2005)

2008 Iwate-Miyagi

7.2

+ 11.3

0.0

Takada et al. (2009)

  1. Postseismic changes are cumulative viscoelastic effects until 2012
  2. *Fault parameters for the 1894 Shonai earthquake are assumed as 38.75ºN, 139.95ºE, D = 0 km, L = 30 km, W = 15 km, ϕ = 0º, δ = 30º, λ = 90º, Δu = 1.5 or 3.0 m