Scientific Images of the 1995 Hyogoken-Nanbu Earthquake

collected about 25 Jan. 1995 from Internet sources

Tectonic Setting of the Kobe Earthquake

Map of Japan showing major plate boundaries (yellow lines) and significant earthquakes (dots) along with the location of the 17 January 1995 shock. Dots show located events during 1961-1994 with size proportional to magnitude and with color coded according to earthquake depth (see scale bar at right of figure). The 17 January earthquake (star) occurred on a northeast-trending strike-slip fault that branches off the Median Tectonic Line, a major right-lateral strike slip fault lying 200 km north of the subduction plate boundary on which great M=8 earthquakes occurred in 1944 and 1946 (rupture zones indicated by red lines).

The above map was prepared by Grant Marshall, USGS.

Harvard's CMT mechanism with a location map.

Take a look at the broadband record from Pasadena posted by the California Institute of Technology. This is a link to the original archive.

Seismicity

Map of located aftershocks and other earthquakes between Jan. 16 and 18, compiled by the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo. Click here for a printable postscript version.

Map of located aftershocks and other earthquakes between Jan. 21 and 23, compiled by the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo. Click here for a printable postscript version.

Click here for a printable postscript map for Jan 18-19, and here for a printable postscript map for Jan 19-21.

Strong Motion Records

Map of maximum ground accelerations and velocities, compiled by the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo. Click here for a printable postscript version. Click here for a list of maximum accelerations from the Japanese Railway.

Location map of strong-motion records compiled by Tokyo Metro University. Click here for a list of measured maximum velocities.

This site shows persistent motion.

This site shows sharp, high ground-velocity motion.