The 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake with Japan Meteorological Agency magnitude (
Mj) 8.0 occurred at 4:50 on September 26, 2003 (JST), off Tokachi region of Hokkaido. The 6 lower intensity was observed in a wide area of Hidaka, Tokachi and Kushiro sub-prefecture. JMA issued a tsunami warning at 4:56 to the middle and eastern part of the Pacific coast of Hokkaido.
The tsunami higher than 1m was observed at several places by the tide gauge. The highest was 2.5m at Tokachi port, Hiroo town. The tsunami run-up reached 4 m at Hyakunin-hama, Cape Erimo, and Mabiro, Mabiro town.
Two people went missing and 847 people were injured. It is noted that the remarkable excitation of long period motion was observed, and it resulted in the fire of oil tank at Tomakomai city. Surface soil liquefaction was also observed in Sapporo, about 250km away from the hypocenter. The co-seismic subsidence between 0.1m and 0.5m was recorded by tide gauge.
The aftershock activity was very high soon after the main shock. Number of aftershocks with
Mj≥2.5 was 1, 669, including 7 events with
Mj≥6, until the end of April, 2004. The largest aftershock (
Mj7.1) occurred at 6:08, September 26, 2003, 1 hour and 20 minutes after the main shock. The hypocenter was about 30km west-southwest of the main shock. After April of 2004, the activity decreased, a few events counted in a day. Though the aftershock activity has been high in the region northeast of the main shock and near the trench axis, it has been low near the main shock and largest aftershock hypocenters.
Small earthquakes clustered after the main shock in several regions along the volcanic front. The seismic activity also increased in the region out of the Kurile trench.
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