Eastern margin of the Sea of Japan explained
The eastern margin of the Sea of Japan is a zone of concentrated geological strain which extends several hundred kilometers and north–south along the eastern margin of the Sea of Japan. The margin has undergone convergence tectonics since the end of the Pliocene.[1] [2] It is believed to be an incipient subduction zone which defines the tectonic boundary between the Amurian and Okhotsk plates. This geological zone is seismically active and has been the source of destructive tsunamis. The feature runs off the west coast of Honshu, passes west of the Shakotan Peninsula on Hokkaido and through the Strait of Tartary, between Sakhalin and mainland Russia.
Plate tectonics
The Sea of Japan represents a back-arc basin that formed via geological rifting of continental crust from the late Oligocene to middle Miocene (28–13 million years ago).[3] The Sea of Japan can be divided into sub-basins; the Japan Basin, Yamato Basin and Tsushima Basin. Seafloor spreading in the Sea of Japan was restricted to the Japan Basin and ceased by the middle Miocene.[4]
Following the end of seafloor spreading, its eastern margin experienced weak compression between 10 and 3.5 million years ago. Crustal shortening has been ongoing in the eastern margin and back-arc region of the Northeastern Japan Arc since 3.5 million years ago. This deformation is attributed to east–west compressive forces, forming fold and thrust belts along the eastern margin. The southern margin was subjected to north–south or northwest–southeast compression about 8–5 million years ago. Presently, the southern margin hosts mainly strike-slip faults.
The margin is located at the boundary marking the Amurian and Okhotsk microplates. Oceanic lithosphere from the Sea of Japan located on the Amurian Plate converges with the Japanese archipelago on the Okhotsk Plate. A Wadati–Benioff zone which is evidence for subduction, is absent in the zone, hence subduction is doubtful. However, it may be an incipient eastward-dipping subduction zone.[5] In 1983, it was proposed that subduction along the eastern margin commenced about 1–2 million years ago.[6]
The basis for defining this tectonic boundary is the occurrence of large magnitude 7 or greater earthquakes along a linear zone from offshore Niigata Prefecture to off the west coast of Hokkaido.[7] Following the 1983 Nihonkai-Chubu earthquake, the idea of a young plate boundary was proposed, but its mechanism is unknown—it has been proposed as a transform boundary or collision zone.[8]
Location
The margin passes north–south through the Shakotan Peninsula, Oshima Peninsula, and Tōhoku region. It junctions with the Niigata–Kobe Tectonic Zone and Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line between Sado Island and the Noto Peninsula.[9] It strikes southwest in the western part of Fukushima Prefecture and extends to the border of Nagano and Toyama Prefecture. It exits north of Lake Biwa and continues to the eastern part of Shimane Prefecture. In the Sea of Japan, the cluster of extensional faults which were active during the formation of the sea remained. After the Pliocene, the stress field evolved from extensional to convergence. The compressive forces reactivated these faults and displayed thrust mechanisms.[10]
Seismicity and tsunamis
See also: List of earthquakes in Japan. The eastern margin of the Sea of Japan was the source of historically destructive earthquakes and tsunamis. These events were considered intraplate earthquakes until 1983 when the plate boundary theory was proposed. The associated geological faults related to the opening of the sea and compressive forces along the eastern margin influence seismic activity. Large earthquakes in 1833, 1940, 1964, 1983, and 1993 were the result of reverse faulting associated with the present deformation. The Sea of Japan is considered one of the world's most seismically active back-arc basins.[11]
!Year!Location!Event!Comments1741 | Oshima, off the coast of Hokkaido | Volcanic eruption[12] [13] | About 2,000 people killed along the west coast of Japan from the resulting tsunami. Homes and fishing boats destroyed in Korea.[14] Tsunami magnitude calculated at 8.4; largest tsunami in the region. |
1792 | Shiribeshi | Earthquake (M 7.1) | At least five people killed in Oshoro by the tsunami and additional tsunami casualties at Bikuni. |
1793 (ja) | Aomori | Earthquake (6.9) | Generated a tsunami along the Tsugaru Peninsula.[15] Twelve people killed and 164 homes destroyed. Considerable damage in Ajigasawa. |
1802 (ja) | Sado Island | Earthquake (6.6) | At least 19 people killed, 732 homes destroyed and 1,423 damaged. Caused of uplift on the Ogi Peninsula, exposing pillow lava from the Miocene.[16] |
1804 (ja) | Kisa, Akita | Earthquake (7.1[17]) | At least 450 killed and 10,810 houses destroyed. A tsunami flooded 300 homes in Kisagata and Sakata. |
1828 (ja) | Sanjō Niigata | Earthquake (6.9[18]) | At least 1,443 killed and 11,750 houses ruined. No tsunami. |
1833 | Yamagata | Earthquake (7.5–7.7[19]) | At least 150 people killed. Tsunami recorded with a maximum height of at Kamo.[20] |
1939 | Akita | Earthquake (7.0) | Onshore event. At least 27 killed and 52 injured.[21] |
1940 | Shakotan, Hokkaido | Earthquake (7.5) | Ten people killed, 24 injured, and many homes and fishing boats damaged or destroyed in Hokkaido, North Korea and Russia.[22] Tsunami recorded with a maximum height of at Kamenka, Primorsky Krai.[23] |
1947 | Shakotan, Hokkaido | Earthquake (7.1) | Felt at Haboro and Rumoi. Tsunami recorded with a height of at Wakkanai and Rishiri Island; at Haboro and several tens of centimeters at Otaru. Minor damage.[24] |
1964 | Akita offshore | Earthquake (7.0) | Tsunami recorded along Niigata and Hokkaido prefectures. |
1964 | Niigata, Niigata | Earthquake (7.6) | At least 36 people killed and over 300 injured. Tsunami with a maximum height of at Fuya.[25] |
1971 | Moneron Island, Russia | Earthquake (7.3) | Rockfalls and landslides on Moneron Island. Damage to buildings in Shebunino and Gomozavodsk on Sakhalin. Felt VII–VIII (MSK) on Moneron Island and VII (MMI) in southern Sakhalin. Tsunami recorded with a maximum height of at Shebunino, Sakhalin.[26] |
1983 | Akita offshore | Earthquake (7.7) | Heavy damage due to liquefaction. At least 104 people dead—4 as a direct effect of the earthquake. One hundred deaths attributed to the tsunami including three deaths in South Korea.[27] |
1993 | Okushiri, Hokkaido | Earthquake (7.7) | At least 230 people killed including 165 on Okushiri. Tsunami recorded on the southern coast of Okushiri; along the Hokkaido coast; also recorded in Russia and South Korea. Considerable damage from fires, landslides and tsunami. Three people missing along Russia's southeastern coast. |
1995 | Neftegorsk, Sakhalin | Earthquake (7.0) | Strike-slip earthquake producing up to of surface offset. Approximately 2,000 people dead in Neftegorsk.[28] |
2000 | Uglegorsk, Sakhalin | Earthquake (6.8) | Eight people injured and many buildings damaged.[29] |
2004 | Niigata | Earthquake (6.6) | Sixty eight people killed, 4,805 injured and extensive damage. Maximum intensity 7 on the JMA seismic intensity scale.[30] [31] |
2007 | Niigata | Earthquake (6.6) | Eleven people killed, 1,000 injured and 342 houses destroyed.[32] [33] [34] |
2007 (ru) | Nevelsk, Sakhalin | Earthquake (6.2) | Occurred on a west-dipping reverse fault as opposed to east-dipping faults involved in large Sea of Japan earthquakes. Three tsunami waves measuring up to .[35] Two people killed, ten injured and severe damage occurred in Nevelsk. Over half of the town's 11,000 residents displaced. Maximum MSK-64 intensity VIII.[36] |
2011 | Nagano | Earthquake (6.3) | Three people killed and nine injured. Seventy three houses destroyed and 427 damaged.[37] |
2014 | Nagano | Earthquake (6.3) | Forty-one people were injured and 50 houses collapsed.[38] Significant surface ruptures were observed.[39] |
2019 | Yamagata | Earthquake (6.4) | Twenty-six people injured and 149 houses damaged.[40] [41] |
2024 | Noto | Earthquake (7.5.[42]) | At least 203 people killed and 52 missing.[43] | |
Offshore earthquakes
Large earthquakes with epicenters offshore and north of the Noto Peninsula are mostly accompanied by tsunamis. These events have recurrence intervals of 1,000 years.[44] Due to their closer proximity to land, the accompanying tsunamis require a shorter time arriving compared to earthquakes along Japan's Pacific coast. These earthquakes tend to generate considerably large tsunamis.[45]
Hazard
The -long Akita-oki seismic gap lies off the coast of Akita Prefecture. This plate-boundary segment is located between the rupture zones of the 1833 and 1983 earthquakes and has not experienced a major earthquake during historical times. It has the potential to produce a magnitude 7.5 earthquake, probably by the end of the 21st century. Another seismic gap of length is thought to exist off the coast of Hokkaido between the 1940 and 1993 rupture zones. [46]
See also
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