Introduction
Kushiro-Oki earthquake was taken place on 15 January 1993 in Kushiro city, Japan.
Kushiro city is characterized in to two regions that is lowland and terrace region. In terrace
region pumice flow deposits of Pleistocene period predominates at shallow depths and
underlying layer is a sand layer. In the lowland region shallow layers are alluvial deposits of
sand, gravel and soft silt.
The Kushiro-Oki earthquake have surface wave magnitude of 7.8 occurred at a depth
of 103 km with an epicentral distance of 15 km with the Kushiro City.