Megathrust Earthquake
The 2016 Mw 5.9 earthquake off the southeastern coast of Mie Prefecture as an indicator of preparatory processes of the next Nankai Trough megathrust earthquake
... off-Mie earthquake in the middle of the megathrust earthquake cycle along the Nankai Trough, we con- ducted a preliminary earthquake cycle simulation based on the hierarchical asperity model ...
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A megathrust earthquake cycle model for Northeast Japan: bridging the mismatch between geological uplift and geodetic subsidence
... entire megathrust earthquake cycle, with particular atten- tion to the effect of viscoelastic relaxation in the astheno- sphere over time given a more than 500-year recurrence ...an earthquake cycle ...
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Could a Sumatra like megathrust earthquake occur in the south Ryukyu subduction zone?
... Sumatra earthquake: the thrust earthquakes with a trench- normal P -axis occur frequently in the oceanward side of the mainshock area, whereas few thrust-type earthquakes occur in the continentward ...
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Unusual low angle normal fault earthquakes after the 2011 Tohoku oki megathrust earthquake
... Additional file 1: Figure S1. The finite fault inversion analysis of the 2014 Fukushima-oki earthquake. (a) Estimated total slip distribution (map view). We inverted teleseismic P-wave data recorded at 26 ...
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Diatom-Based Reconstructions of Megathrust Earthquake Deformation and Tsunami Inundation in Central and South-Central Chile
... thickness, sharp (1-3 mm) lower and upper contacts, landward thinning, and normal grading (upward fining) of grain size (Dawson and Stewart, 2007; Szczuciński et al., 2012). Allochthonous marine and brackish diatoms ...
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Splay fault and megathrust earthquake slip in the Nankai Trough
... accretionary prism, as required by Cummins and Kaneda (2000) in order to produce the broad uplift pattern evident in the tsunami inversion results of Tanioka and Satake (2001). Some evidence that such faults may actually ...
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Along dip segmentation of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake and comparison with other megathrust earthquakes
... Tohoku earthquake as compared with other megathrust earthquakes, as summarized in ...this megathrust earthquake, suggesting that plate coupling there was ...hoku earthquake had been ...
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Migration process of very low frequency events based on a chain reaction model and its application to the detection of preseismic slip for megathrust earthquakes
... Fig. 2. (a) Time histories of the common logarithm of slip velocities (upper) and friction (lower) averaged in the areas of LA (green) and SA (black) indicated by the arrow in Fig. 1(b). The origin time is set to the ...
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Rapid Finite Fault Inversion for Megathrust Earthquakes
... consist with a thrust event. Similar peak slip is found by Ye et al. (2015) although in that solution it is placed slightly deeper. The estimated magnitude from our finite fault models ranges from 8.3 to 8.5 depending on ...
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Association of the November 30, 2018 M 7.1 Earthquake near Anchorage, Alaska to the Tectonics of Southcentral Alaska
... moving megathrust earthquake between the shallower YAK/NA boundary east of the 30 November event would be much more regional and therefore ...Alaska earthquake vertically folding crust (Plafker, ...
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Testing the Coulomb stress triggering hypothesis for three recent megathrust earthquakes
... recent megathrust earthquakes (the 2004 Suma- tra–Andaman earthquake, the 2010 Maule earthquake, and the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake) using focal mechanism solutions for actual earthquakes as ...
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Preceding seismic activity and slow slip events in the source area of the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake: a review
... Tohoku-Oki earthquake, M > 6 earth- quakes occurred away from the two large slip ...the megathrust occurred in the areas surrounding the two large slip ...the megathrust and/or updip migration of ...
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Visualization of Green’s function anomalies for megathrust source in Nankai Trough by reciprocity method
... a megathrust earthquake in the Nankai Trough and considered the effects of various areas (asperities or strong motion generation areas) on the simulated long-period ground motions at Konohana in the Osaka ...
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Occurrence of 1 ka-old corals on an uplifted reef terrace in west Luzon, Philippines: Implications for a prehistoric extreme wave event in the South China Sea region
... the megathrust- and upper-plate faults was inferred from early geophysical data ...hypothetical megathrust- and upper- plate fault, respectively. For the megathrust fault model, a rupture along a ...
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Earthquake engineering education plan for low intensity earthquake region
... strong earthquake but also by those that are exposed to low intensity earthquake region like ...the earthquake engineering education in our ...
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Earthquake Risk and Earthquake Catastrophe Insurance for the People's Republic of China
... an earthquake is a natural catastrophe with low occurrence probability but with severe consequences when it does ...An earthquake insurance program can be an effective mechanism for accumulating funds in ...
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Seismic evidence for megathrust fault-valve behavior during episodic tremor and slip
... slow megathrust rupture would result in greater silica precipitation and explain the concentration of seismicity and reduced electrical resistivity in the forearc crust above the mantle wedge corner (7, 14, 18, ...
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Time-predictable model applicability for earthquake occurrence in northeast India and vicinity
... the earthquake cycle (pe- riodicity) called elastic rebound ...future earthquake in the same fault after releasing the stored strained energy during the ...
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Magnitude-Period Formula and New Research on Earthquake
... an earthquake does not take place until the momentum-energy excess a faulting threshold due to the movement of the fluid layer under the rock layer and the transport and accumulation of the ...the ...
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8.5SAWorksheetLogEquations
... Nisqually earthquake on February 28, 2001 was one of the largest recorded earthquakes in Washington state ...2011 earthquake in Japan was measured as a ...magnitude earthquake. It was the most ...
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