Japan: Earthquake: 2001/03/24

Period	2001/03/24
Country or District	Japan
Event Type	Earthquake
Outline	A powerful earthquake, estimated at magnitude of 6.4 hit southwestern Japan at 07:28(GMT) on March 24. The epicenter is some 38 miles below ground at sea just off Hiroshima. The official reported two people are killed and 183 are injured as of March 26.

Related Links

Report/Articles

Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC)
The Report of the Field Survey of the Affected Area

Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC)
The Report of the Field Survey of the Affected Area (Japanese Page)

Cabinet Office, Japanese Government
Report on 2001 GEIYO earthquake

Kyodo News
(Japanese Page)

YOMIURI ON-LINE 2001/03/25
There is a record the earthquake occurred at Akinada, off shore of Hiroshima every 50 years

Earthquake Information Center, Tokyo University
Information on Source, Seisimicity, and Wave form

Chugoku Newspaper
(Japanese page) Local Paper - Akinada Earthquake around Hiroshima

KYODO NEWS
M6.2 quake rocks western Japan

CNN News 2001/03/24
Two dead, hundreds injured in Japan quake

NIKKEI NET 2001/03/26
A great earthquake of Seismicity Intensity 5 occurred in Hiroshima

Earthquake Information Center, Tokyo University
(Japanese page) Information on Source, Seisimicity, and Wave form

BBC News 2001/03/24
Earthquake hits western Japan

Fire and Disaster Management Agency, JAPAN
(Japanese page) Official report on the eathquake occurred at off shore Hiroshima

Hiroshima Prefecture HQ of Disaster Management
(Japanese Page) Disaster Damage Report in Hiroshima Prefecture

Ehime Newspaper 2001/03/25
(Japanese page) Local Paper - The expansion of the damage by the earthquake

Pictures

ASSOCIATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION
Map of Seismic Intensity

USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Earthquake Bulletin 01/03/24