Figure 10 List of special investigation areas and priority investigation areasAreas for Intensified Observation and Areas for Specified Observation

(1)Areas for Specified Observation

Areas which meet more than one out of the following four criteria:

1 Areas which have experienced major earthquakes in the past, not recently.

2 Structurally active areas

3 Areas recently experiencing frequent crustal activity

4 Socially important areas

(a)Eastern Hokkaido

(b)Western Akita and North-western Yamagata

(c)Eastern Miyagi and Eastern Fukushima

(d)South-western Niigata and Northern Nagano

(e)Western Nagano and Eastern Gifu

(f)Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe Area

(g)Eastern Shimane

(h)Iyo-nada and Hyuga-nada Area

(2)Areas for Intensified Observation

(h)lyo-nada and Hyuga-nada Area

(i)Southern Kanto

(j)Tokai

Key:Areas for Intensified Observation

Areas for Specified Observation

Source:Coordinating Committee for

Earthquake Prediction

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