2024 Noto earthquake
2024 Noto earthquake
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) officially named this earthquake the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake (Japanese: 令和6年能登半島地震, Hepburn: Reiwa 6-nen Noto-hantō Jishin). It led to Japan's first major tsunami warning) since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, and a tsunami of 11.3 m (37 ft) was measured in Wajima on the peninsula.
Overview
The rifting and subsequent inversion has created a series of faults along the coast that have the potential to move and cause earthquakes, in the range of Mw 6.8–7.9, in many cases with tsunamis. Major earthquakes and tsunamis along this boundary occurred in (/wiki/1833Shōnaiearthquake), (/wiki/1940Shakotanearthquake), (/wiki/1964Niigataearthquake), (/wiki/1983SeaofJapanearthquake) and (/wiki/1993Okushiriearthquake). The largest and most destructive tsunami in the Sea of Japan occurred in (/wiki/1741eruptionofOshima–ŌshimaandtheKampotsunami) and was attributed to the eruption of Oshima). A fault known as the F43 (in the list of 60 faults evaluated) reaches the seabed just north of the Noto peninsula trending WSW–ENE. This southeast-dipping fault, which consists of two segments with a combined length of 94.2 km (58.5 mi), has been judged to be capable of producing an earthquake of Mw 7.6.
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