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Niigata Ken Chuetsu Virtual Clearinghouse

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Niigata Ken Chuetsu Earthquake
Virtual Clearinghouse

Observations

The virtual clearinghouse attempts to accumulate earthquake data quickly. Therefore, the information in this clearinghouse is meant to be preliminary and reflects the authors' opinions at the time of writing, which may change over time.

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Preliminary Reconnaissance

EERI Team

EERI Preliminary Reconnaissance Report

Preliminary reports on aerial and field reconnaissance from EERI/GEER team member, JP Bardet
Photo Recconaissance Report - Scott A. Ashford and Yohsuke Kawamata

(These links are in Japanese)

Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion (clearinghouse for contributions from many organizations)
Yuji Yagi's slip map, IISEE, Tsukuba Science City, Japan
The big map shows the locations of these two stations, and the two smaller maps and attenuation plots below show pga (left) and pgv (right); the red line is the empirical model of Si and Midorikawa for Japanese crustal earthquakes. Below these are acceleration and velocity waveforms from Ojiya and then Tohkamachi.
Maps and Images (English/Japanese), IISEE, Tsukuba Science City, Japan
Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering
Japan Society of Civil Engineers

(These links are in English)

Preliminary Reconnaissance Report. Dr. Riki Honda, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
Asian Disaster Reduction Center
Public Works Research Institute, Govt. of Japan, 2004 Mid Ni’igata Prefecture Earthquake
Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo Special Event Page-The Mid Niigata prefecture Earthquake in 2004

* This virtual clearinghouse contains information contributed by various earthquake engineering professionals around the world. All opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute or the authors' affiliate organizations.

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