As the title suggests, the Kuril Islands Earthquakes of 2006-2007 are regarding both tsunamis and the earthquakes that caused them. These events spanned from November 15th, 2006, and January 13th, 2007. The epicenter of these earthquakes and tsunamis were on the Kuril Islands of Japan while sending tsunamis that delt major damage to Crecent City California.
The magnitude 8.3 earthquake on
November 15th, 2006, started along the Kuril-Kamchatka trench and
battered the nearby Kuril Islands which are uninhabited and acted as a buffer
for Hokkaido Japan and Kamchatka Russia. Though the tsunamis it created did
travel all the way to threaten North America in places like Washington, Oregon,
Alaska and Hawaii, though by far the most damaged by the event was Crecent City
California. This led to a large amount of structural damage, sand loss (Wilson,
Unknown), and even a few injuries with approximately $9.2 million dollars in
losses (Dengler et al, 2009). Its aftershock rang out on January 13th,
2007, with a surprisingly large 8.1 magnitude. There was much less destruction
from this aftershock though, as more precautionary measures were put in place
to stop damage.
There is a clear message that
can be learned from my resources, and that lesson is to take the warnings or
natural hazards seriously. It may sound humorous, but Crecent City would have
been far less damaged if the communication of the warning was successfully
given and not somehow missed in the chain of communication (Wilson, Unknown).
The aftershock further proves how integral preparations are as when they were
informed, very little damage was taken in Crecent City.
ResearchGate,
Ekstrom et al. 2012 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Seismic-activity-of-the-Kuril-Island-arc-region-from-1-January-1976-to-15-November-2006_fig1_341253859
This image
shows the seismic activity of the fault where the earthquake occurred at the
time of the quakes.
National
Centers for Environmental Information, Wessel https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/natural-hazards/tsunamis-earthquakes-volcanoes/tsunamis/recent-significant-events/kuril-island-nov-2006-earthquake-dart-summary
This image
is of varying amounts of data such as water level, PSIA, and overall tidal
analysis of the earthquake across the Pacific Ocean.
Semantic
Scholar, Lay et al. 2009 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-2006%E2%80%932007-Kuril-Islands-great-earthquake-Lay-Kanamori/38ca0244b139b4cf8503536fc0a3e7d41f9f9db4/figure/2
This image
shows the strange ground shake statistics giving strange information on how
much more effected Japan was with the weaker aftershock than the main quake.
https://youtu.be/yRqGynwxjwA?si=EF9fuNk7A4i0b9yH
This is just
about the only video I can find about this event, so I apologize for its
quality.
WSSPC,
Unknown date, Western States Seismic Policy. Retrieved August 31st
2024 from https://wsspc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/TsuCenSigEv_2006Kuril.pdf#:~:text=The%20magnitude%208.3%20Kuril%20Islands%20earthquake%20on%20November,trans-Pacific%20tsunami%20since%20the%20Alaska%20tsunami%20of%201964.
Online
Library, (2009, November 24), The 2006–2007 Kuril Islands great earthquake
sequence. Retrieved August 31st 2024 from https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2008JB006280
USGS, (2009,
October 27), The November 15, 2006 Kuril
Islands-generated tsunami in Crescent City, California. Retrieved August 31st
2024 from https://www.usgs.gov/publications/november-15-2006-kuril-islands-generated-tsunami-crescent-city-
california#:~:text=On%20November%2015%2C%202006%2C%20Crescent%20City%20in%20Del,and%20caused%20an%20estimated%20%249.2%20million%20in%20losses.
Nature,
(2008, January 31), A great earthquake doublet and seismic
stress transfer cycle in the central Kuril islands. Retrieved August 31st
2024 from https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06521
USGS,
(2016), M 8.3 - Kuril Islands. Retrieved August 31st 2024 from https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usp000exfn/executive
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