Earthquakes Japan and New Zealand 2011

Seismograms of the event recorded at stations of the SED

The Recent Catastrophic Earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan from a Seismological Perspective

Public lecture by the Swiss Seismological Service at the ETH Zürich of Thursday, 17 March 2011

The destructive earthquake of Christchurch (M6.3, February 22) and the catastrophic event with subsequent tsunami off the coast of Japan (M9, March 11) put earthquakes and their consequences for our society once again back into public focus. Despite the intense coverage many questions on the How and Why of those disastrous events remain unclear in the media. Prof. Domenico Giardini, head of the Swiss Seismological Service, and his colleagues, report on the scientific state of knowledge for those events, the seismological conclusions, and what we may learn from them in particular also for Switzerland.

Video of the talk

PDF of the presentation (7.5Mb, English)