Skip to main content

Table 1 Information of the foreshock, mainshock (BP3), and aftershock (BP2) of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence with the epicentral distance, fault distance, observed PGA and PGV, at KU.KMP1 and KUMA

From: Predicted results of weak and strong ground motions at the target site of the blind prediction exercise as steps-2 and -3, Report for the experiments for the 6th international symposium on effects of surface geology on seismic motion

Target earthquake

Origin Time (JST)

Lat

Long

Depth (km)

Mj

KU.KMP1

KUMA

Epicentral Dis. (km)

Fault Dis. (km)

PGA (cm/s2)

PGV (cm/s)

Epicentral Dis. (km)

Fault Dis. (km)

PGA (cm/s2)

PGV (cm/s)

NS

EW

UD

NS

EW

UD

NS

EW

UD

NS

EW

UD

Foreshock

2016-04-14 21:26:34.43

32.74

130.81

11.39

6.5

19.45

19.70

102.4

112.8

100.2

9.4

11.8

4.3

11.92

12.09

441.5

388.8

227.0

69.2

46.4

12.9

Mainshock

2016-04-16 01:25:05.47

32.75

130.76

12.45

7.3

15.00

16.78

168.2

231.5

249.1

20.8

25.0

8.0

7.41

10.47

574.7

509.1

444.0

66.8

52.2

18.5

Aftershock

2016-04-16 03:03:10.78

32.96

131.09

6.89

5.9

46.26

12.8

11.5

5.7

1.0

0.7

0.4

42.76

30.6

33.2

12.6

1.97

1.89

0.63

  1. PGVs at Kuma were obtained by velocities in the frequency range of 0.1 to 10 Hz