2016 Tottori earthquake

{{Infobox earthquake

| location = {{Coord|35.380|||N|133.855|||E|display=inline, title}}{{Cite web|title=The 2016 Central Tottori Earthquake {{!}} GSI HOME PAGE|url=https://www.gsi.go.jp/cais/topic161027-index-e.html|access-date=2021-06-16|website=gsi.go.jp}}

| anss-url = us20007fta

| isc-event = 611830857

| native_name = 鳥取県中部地震

| magnitude = {{M|j|link=y}} 6.6
{{M|w|link=y}} 6.2

| timestamp = 2016-10-21 05:07

| local-date = October 21, 2016[https://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/calendar/118/ 鳥取県中部の地震(2016年)] – 災害カレンダー

| map2 = {{Location map |Japan Tottori Prefecture

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| casualties = 32 injured[https://www.data.jma.go.jp/svd/eqev/data/higai/higai1996-new.html#higai2016 日本付近で発生した主な被害地震] – 気象庁

| fault =

| local-time = 14:07 (JST)[https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/en/2016_Tottori_Earthquake/2016_Tottori_Earthquake.html The Earthquake in Tottori-ken Chubu on 21 October 2016 -Portal-] – JMA

| native_name_lang = ja

| depth = 11 km[https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/press/1610/21a/kaisetsu201610211540.pdf 平成28年10月21日14時07分頃の鳥取県中部の地震について] – 気象庁

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| intensity = {{MMI|VIII}}

{{JMA|6-}}

| pga = 1.52 g
1494 Gal

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The {{nihongo|2016 Tottori earthquake |鳥取県中部地震|Tottori-ken Chūbu Jishin}}[https://www.pref.tottori.lg.jp/secure/1167305/chubujisinkirokushi.pdf 平成28年10月21日鳥取県中部地震記録誌] – 鳥取県 is an earthquake that occurred in central Tottori Prefecture in Japan on October 21, 2016.{{Cite web|title=21st October, 2016 Earthquake in Tottori prefecture – Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo|url=https://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/eq/1117/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624195621/https://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/eq/1117/ |archive-date=2021-06-24 }}{{Cite journal|last1=Kubo|first1=Hisahiko|last2=Suzuki|first2=Wataru|last3=Aoi|first3=Shin|last4=Sekiguchi|first4=Haruko|date=2017-09-15|title=Source rupture process of the 2016 central Tottori, Japan, earthquake (MJMA 6.6) inferred from strong motion waveforms|journal=Earth, Planets and Space|volume=69|issue=1|pages=127|doi=10.1186/s40623-017-0714-3|bibcode=2017EP&S...69..127K|issn=1880-5981|doi-access=free}}{{Cite web|title=Evaluation of Earthquake in the Central Tottori Prefecture on October 21, 2016 (October 22, 2016)|url=https://www.jishin.go.jp/main/chousa/16oct_tottori/index-e.htm|access-date=2021-06-16|publisher=Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion}} It measured 6.2 on the moment magnitude scale.{{Cite web|title=M 6.2 – 6 km S of Kurayoshi, Japan|url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20007fta/executive|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-16|publisher=United States Geological Survey|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624195830/https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20007fta/executive |archive-date=2021-06-24 }}{{Cite journal|last1=Ross|first1=Zachary E.|last2=Kanamori|first2=Hiroo|last3=Hauksson|first3=Egill|last4=Aso|first4=Naofumi|date=2018|title=Dissipative Intraplate Faulting During the 2016 Mw 6.2 Tottori, Japan Earthquake|journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth|volume=123|issue=2|pages=1631–1642|doi=10.1002/2017JB015077|bibcode=2018JGRB..123.1631R|issn=2169-9356|doi-access=free}} The earthquake left 32 people injured.{{Cite web|date=2018-04-29|title=鳥取県中部を震源とする地震 (第38報)|url=https://www.fdma.go.jp/bn/99706bdd32c5efd399b9d5ee59c981f264040642.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429223559/https://www.fdma.go.jp/bn/99706bdd32c5efd399b9d5ee59c981f264040642.pdf|archive-date=2018-04-29}}

Earthquake

The shock had a maximum intensity of VIII (Severe), and it had a maximum JMA intensity of Shindo 6− (Kurayoshi, Yurihama and Hokuei).{{Cite web|title=気象庁|報道発表資料|url=https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/press/1610/21a/201610211540.html|access-date=2021-06-16|publisher=Japan Meteorological Agency}}{{Cite web|title=震度データベース検索|url=https://www.data.jma.go.jp/svd/eqdb/data/shindo/#20161021140722|access-date=2021-06-16|publisher=Japan Meteorological Agency}}

See also

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