1707_Hōei_earthquake

1707 Hōei earthquake

1707 Hōei earthquake

1707 earthquake and tsunami off the southern coast of Japan

The 1707 Hōei earthquake (宝永地震, Hōei jishin) struck south-central Japan at 14:00 local time on 28 October. It was the largest earthquake in Japanese history[1] until it was surpassed by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake.[4] It caused moderate-to-severe damage throughout southwestern Honshu, Shikoku and southeastern Kyūshū.[5] The earthquake, and the resulting destructive tsunami, caused more than 5,000 casualties.[3] This event ruptured all of the segments of the Nankai megathrust simultaneously, the only earthquake known to have done this, with an estimated magnitude of 8.6 ML or 8.7 Mw.[2] It possibly also triggered the last eruption of Mount Fuji 49 days later.[6]

Quick Facts Local date, Local time ...

Hōei (宝永) was the era spanning the years from March 1704 through April 1711.

Tectonic setting

The southern coast of Honshu runs parallel to the Nankai Trough, which marks the subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. Movement on this convergent plate boundary leads to many earthquakes, some of them of megathrust type. The Nankai megathrust has five distinct segments (A-E) that can rupture independently.[7][8] The segments have ruptured either singly or together repeatedly over the last 1,300 years.[9] Megathrust earthquakes on this structure tend to occur in pairs, with a relatively short time gap between them: In addition to two events in 1854, a similar pair occurred in 1944 and 1946. In both instances, the northeastern segment ruptured before the southwestern segment.[10] In the 1707 event, the earthquakes were either simultaneous, or close enough in time to not be distinguished by historical sources.

Damage

The earthquake caused more than 5,000 casualties, destroyed 29,000 houses, and triggered at least one major landslide, the Ohya slide in Shizuoka.[11] One of Japan's three largest, it buried a 1.8 km2 area under an estimated 120 million m3 of debris.[12] The Nara Basin shows evidence of event-induced liquefaction.[13]

Characteristics

Earthquake

The magnitude of the 1707 event exceeded that of both the 1854 Tōkai and Nankai earthquakes, based on several observations. The uplift at Cape Muroto, Kōchi is estimated at 2.3 m in 1707 compared to 1.5 m in 1854, the presence of an area of seismic intensity of 6–7 on the JMA scale in Kawachi Plain, the degree of damage and inundations heights for the corresponding tsunami and records of tsunami at distant locations, such as Nagasaki and Jeju-do, Korea.[14]

The length of the rupture has been estimated from the modelling of the observed tsunami and the location of tsunami deposits. Initial estimates of 605 km, based on four segments rupturing failed to explain tsunami deposits discovered at the western end of the trough. Including an additional area at the southwestern end, part of the so-called Hyuga-nada segment, gave a better match, with a total rupture length in the range 675–700 km.[15][16]

Tsunami

Along the southwestern coast of Kōchi, run-up heights averaged 7.7 m with up to 10 m in places;[17] 25.7 m high at Kure, Nakatosa, Kōchi, and 23 m at Tanezaki.[18]

Eruption of Mount Fuji

Evidence suggests that changes in stress caused by large earthquakes might be sufficient to trigger volcanic eruptions, assuming that the magma system involved is close to a critical state.[6] The 1707 earthquake might have triggered a shift in static stress that led to pressure changes in the magma chamber beneath Mount Fuji. The volcano erupted on 16 December 1707, 49 days after the quake.[2]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    IISEE. "Catalog of Damaging Earthquakes in the World (Through 2016)". Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  2. [2]
    Chesley, Christine; Lafemina, Peter C.; Puskas, Christine; Kobayashi, Daisuke (2012). "The 1707 Mw8.7 Hoei earthquake triggered the largest historical eruption of Mt. Fuji". Geophysical Research Letters. 39 (24): n/a. Bibcode:2012GeoRL..3924309C. doi:10.1029/2012GL053868. S2CID 128457540.
  3. [3]
    Ando, M. (2006). "Groundwater and Coastal Phenomena Preceding the 1944 Tsunami (Tonankai Earthquake)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
  4. [4]
    "Magnitude 8.9 – NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN 2011 March 11 05:46:23 UTC". 11 March 2011. Archived from the original on 12 March 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2011.
  5. [5]
    Miyazawa, M.; Mori J. (2005). "Historical maximum seismic intensity maps in Japan from 1586 to 2004: construction of database and application" (PDF). Ann. Disaster Prev. Res. Inst. Kyoto Univ. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
  6. [6]
    Hill, D.P.; Pollitz F. & Newhall C. (2002). "Earthquake-Volcano Interactions". Physics Today. 55 (11): 41–47. Bibcode:2002PhT....55k..41H. doi:10.1063/1.1535006.
  7. [7]
    Ando, M. (1975). "Source mechanisms and tectonic significance of historical earthquakes along the nankai trough, Japan". Tectonophysics. 27 (2): 119–140. Bibcode:1975Tectp..27..119A. doi:10.1016/0040-1951(75)90102-X.
  8. [8]
    Ishibashi, K. (2004). "Status of historical seismology in Japan" (PDF). Annals of Geophysics. 47 (2/3): 339–368. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
  9. [9]
    Sieh, K.E. (1981). A Review of Geological Evidence for Recurrence Times of Large Earthquakes (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 June 2010. Retrieved 13 November 2009.
  10. [10]
    Kaneda, Y.; Kawaguchi, K.; Araki, E.; Matsumoto, H.; Nakamura, T.; Kamiya, S.; Hori, T.; Baba, T. (2007). "Precise real-time observatory and simulating phenomena of earthquakes and tsunamis around the Nankai Trough - Towards the understanding of mega thrust earthquakes". 2007 Symposium on Underwater Technology and Workshop on Scientific Use of Submarine Cables and Related Technologies. pp. 299–300. doi:10.1109/UT.2007.370806. ISBN 978-1-4244-1207-5. S2CID 45347574.
  11. [11]
    Tsuchiya, S.; Imaizumi F. (2010). "Large Sediment Movement Caused by the Catastrophic Ohya-Kuzure Landslide". Journal of Disaster Research. 5 (3): 257–263. doi:10.20965/jdr.2010.p0257.
  12. [12]
    "Case 2: Oya Hillside work" (PDF). Retrieved 30 January 2010.
  13. [13]
    Nakanashi, I. (1999). "Liquefaction Caused by the 1707 Hoei Earthquake as Observed in the Nara Basin, Central Japan". Disaster Prevention Research Institute Annuals, Kyoto University. 42 (B1): 125–127. Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
  14. [14]
    Tsuji, Y.; Namegaya Y. (2007). "The 1707 Hoei Earthquake, as an Example of a combined Gigantic Tokai-Nankai Earthquake" (PDF). Retrieved 23 December 2009.
  15. [15]
    Kim, S.; Saito, T.; Fukuyama, E.; Kang, T.-S. (2016). "The Nankai Trough earthquake tsunamis in Korea: numerical studies of the 1707 Hoei earthquake and physics-based scenarios" (PDF). Earth, Planets and Space. 68 (1): 64. Bibcode:2016EP&S...68...64K. doi:10.1186/s40623-016-0438-9.
  16. [16]
    Furumura, T.; Imai, K.; Maeda, T. (2011). "A revised tsunami source model for the 1707 Hoei earthquake and simulation of tsunami inundation of Ryujin Lake, Kyushu, Japan". Journal of Geophysical Research. 116 (B2). Bibcode:2011JGRB..116.2308F. doi:10.1029/2010JB007918.
  17. [17]
    Hatori, T. (1981). "Field investigations of the Nankaido Tsunamis in 1707 and 1854 along the South-west coast of Shikoku" (PDF). Bulletin Earthquake Research Institute (in Japanese). 56: 547–570. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 23 December 2009. In Japanese.
  18. [18]
    Akitsune Imamura.(1938).土佐に於ける宝永・安政両度津浪の高さ, 地震 第1輯, 10, 394–404. in Japanese.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1707 Hōei earthquake.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article 1707_Hōei_earthquake, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.