YEAR 2007

Strongest magnitude Sumatra earthquake

8.5 Mw

Deadliest Peru earthquake

8.0 Mw

Total fatalities 712

Earthquakes in 2007 resulted in about 712 fatalities. The 2007 Peru earthquake was the deadliest with 519 fatalities. The September 2007
Sumatra earthquake was the largest in 2007 with an 8.5 on the moment magnitude scale. The 2007 Solomon Islands earthquake caused a
significant tsunami that killed 52 people. There were four 8.0 or higher earthquakes in 2007 which is the most ever recorded for a single year. Other
significant earthquakes in 2007 struck Chile and Japan.

DATE AND MAGNITUDE

PLACE EPICENTER CASUALTY DESCRIPTION
TIME AND DEPTH
The earthquake caused landslides th The Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault is
at in turn created waves as high as six major geological fault that runs
meters, which severely damaged a length of roughly 1000 km in
some salmon aquaculture installations a north-south direction and
APRIL 21, Aisén, Chile 6.2 . exhibits current seismicity.
Tsunami : 6m (20ft) The fault name was coined
2007 2007 Aisén Fjord 25Km(16mi) by Francisco Hervé, I.
Dead : 10
(17:53) earthquake Fuenzalida, E. Araya and A.
Solano in 1979.
TYPE : STRIKE-SLIP
45.27°S 72.66°W INTENSITY : VERY
STRONG
 Toyota motor announced it stopped The Okhotsk Plate is
production in all of its factories converging to the west-
because of the damage done to the northwest towards the Amur
Riken parts plant in Kashiwazaki, Plate with a velocity of about
Niigata. 9 mm/yr and a maximum
Nissan also had to shut down two convergence rate of 24 mm/yr.
factories. The Amur and Okhotsk plate
Tanigawa-Shaitoyama are themselves relatively small
automobiles permanently shut down plates that lie between
their automobile production due to the Eurasian Plate and
huge losses. the Pacific Plate.
The earthquake caused a leak of For the 2007 Chuetsu-Oki
radioactive gases from Kashiwazaki- earthquake, two possibilities
Near the west coast Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant. A small exist regarding its relation to
of Honshu, Japan amount of water from the spent fuel known faults. If the source
July 16, 6.6
2007 2007 Chūetsu pool leaked out but plant operators fault dips southeast, a deep
10Km said the leak was low and did not part of a 20-km-long
(01:13) offshore present any environmental danger. submarine active fault, which
earthquake The earthquake also caused a fire had possibly been formed as a
in an electrical transformer at western border fault of the
the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Shin'etsu basin, should have
30 km northwest of
Power Plant that was extinguished caused the earthquake.
the epicentral area
after two hours. RESULT OF :
Dead : 11 COMPRESSIONAL
Injuries : 1120 TECTONIC PLATE,
REVERSE FAULTING AND
FOLDING
INTENSITY : STRONG 6
ON JAPAN’S SHINDO
SCALE
PEAK GROUND
ACCELERATION : 993 GAL
 A 52-year-old woman died after The earthquake occurred
a Tōrō collapsed and hit her head within the Eurasia Plate, near
in Wajima. the boundary with the North
 25 track ballasts on the Noto American Plate. Noto
Near the west coast Line were shifted after the Peninsula itself was created
March 25, of Honshu, Japan 6.7 by pressure pushing up
earthquake.
2007 2007 Noto sediment from the south-east,
11Km(7mi)  22 cracks were found in the
(00:41) and many folds and reverse
earthquake runway of Noto Airport. The
runway was repaired by March faults are in the area.
26. Some strike-slip faults are also
37.3°N 136.5°E found in the area.
 Some parts of the Noto Toll Road
collapsed, making people leave
 their cars on the road after they DURATION : 30SECONDS
evacuated. The roads were RESULT OF : OBLIQUE
completely repaired by November SLIP FAULTING
30. TYPE : INTRAPLATE
 According to estimates about INTENSITY : 6+ ON
110,000 houses had power JAPAN’S SHINDO SCALE
outages, 13,250 houses had no PEAK GROUND
water supply, and 260 houses' ACCELERATION : 1.33G
phones stopped working. PATTERN OF SHAKING :
 Many other houses had no gas KILLER PULSE, PULSE
supply after the earthquake. WAVE WITH A FREQUENCY
 Soil liquefaction was confirmed at OF 1-2 SECONDS
the coasts near the epicenter
and Himi port.
 Some people were trapped in
elevators that stopped after the
earthquake
Tsunami : 22cm
The earthquake was in the
There were no reports region where the Pacific
of damage or casualties. Plate subducts beneath
the Mariana Plate. Although
the broad-scale tectonics of
this region are dominated by
the subduction of the Pacific
Pagan region, Norther
Plate beneath the Philippine
n Mariana Islands,
Sea Plate, the Pacific Plate
October 31, United States 7.2 does not reach the Philippine
2007 2007 Mariana
248Km 18.854°N 145.315°E Sea Plate in this region, as the
( 03:30)
Islands 410 kmfrom Saipan, Mariana Plate is located in
Northern Mariana between. The Pacific Plate
earthquake Islands and 605 km thrusts under the Mariana
from Hagåtña, Gua
m.
Plate at the Mariana Trench,
and the Mariana Plate is
separated from the Philippine
Sea Plate by a spreading
ridge, the Mariana Trough
INTENSITY : IV (LIGHT)
 There were also reports of
widespread power outages in the
region, including the cities
of Antofagasta, Calama and Arica.
The earthquake disrupted copper
mining in the region; because Chile is
the world's top supplier of copper, the
earthquake caused prices of the metal
to jump by more than six
percent. Tin prices also rose four
Antofagasta, Chile percent to reach a record high.There
November 7.7 were reports of several dozen road
14, 2007 2007 Tocopilla workers trapped inside a collapsed
(15:40) earthquake 40Km highway tunnel. Two hundred homes
were destroyed by the shaking and up
22.325°S 69.969°W to 15,000 people were displaced. In
Tocopilla alone, 1,000 homes were
demolished, representing 30 percent
of all standing structures.
Dead : 2
Injured : 65
Tsunami : 25.5cm
The earthquake resulted
from the release of stresses
generated by the subduction
of the oceanic Nazca
plate beneath the South
American Plate. In this region,
known as the Peru-
Chile subduction zone, the
Nazca Plate thrusts beneath
South America at a rate of
approximately 79 mm/year in
an east-north-east direction.
This earthquake indicates
subduction-related thrusting,
likely on the interface between
these two plates.
DURATION : 3 MINUTES
AND 35 SECONDS
RESULT OF :
SUBDUCTION
TYPE : THRUST
INTENSITY : VIII
(SEVERE)

Experts say this kind of

The quake broke windows in
earthquake is produced about
downtown sectors of the city, as well
once every 100 years.
as various other Peruvian cities,
The earthquake occurred
including Pucallpa, Iquitos, Contaman
as thrust faulting on the
Near the coast of a, Trujillo and Cajamarca. Seventeen
interface between the two
August 15, people died and 70 were injured when
2007
central Peru 8.0 a church in the city of Ica
plates, with the South
2007 Peru 39Km collapsed.[6] They were attending
American Plate moving up and
(23:40) seaward over the Nazca Plate.
earthquake mass at the time the earthquake
13.354°S 76.509°W RESULT OF :
started.
150 km (93 mi) CONVERGRENT
south-southeast Dead : 519 TYPE : THRUST
of Lima Injured : 1366
Tsunami : 5m
 At least fifty-two people were The Australia, Woodlark,
reported to have been killed and sixty and Solomon Sea plates
reported missing when converge to the east-northeast
a tsunami triggered by the earthquake or northeast against
struck the Solomon Islands, wiping the Pacific plate with velocities
out thirteen or more villages. of 90–105 millimeters/year
Thousands were left homeless, and Along much of the plate
damage is estimated in the millions. boundary between the Pacific
Solomon Islands The largest waves were reported on plate and the Australia,
2007 Solomon the northern tip of Simbo Island, Woodlark, Solomon Sea
April 1, 2007 8.1 where maximum tsunami run-ups plates, relative plate-motion is
(20:39) Islands 10Km were 12 m, completely washing away accomplished principally by
earthquake two villages, Tapurai and Riquru, and subduction of the Australia,
killing 10 people. In South Choiseul, Woodlark, Solomon Sea
8°29′S 156°58′E waves 10 meters high swept away plates beneath the Pacific
villages, gardens and a plate.
hospital. About 900 homes were RESULT OF :
destroyed. CONVERGENT AND
Dead : 52 SUBDUCTION
Injured : 65
Tsunami : 25m per seconds
There were no reports RESULT OF : NORMAL
of damage or casualties. FAULTING
TYPE : DIP SLIP
East of the Kuril INTENSITY : VI (STRONG)
Islands, Russia
January 13, 8.1
2007 2007 Kuril
(04:23) Islands 5.7Km
earthquake 46.08°N 154.51°E