Nonvolcanic Deep Tremor Associated with Subduction in Southwest Japan

Author:

Obara Kazushige1

Affiliation:

1. National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tenno-dai 3-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0006, Japan.

Abstract

Deep long-period tremors were recognized and located in a nonvolcanic region in southwest Japan. Epicenters of the tremors were distributed along the strike of the subducting Philippine Sea plate over a length of 600 kilometers. The depth of the tremors averaged about 30 kilometers, near the Mohorovic discontinuity. Each tremor lasted for at most a few weeks. The location of the tremors within the subduction zone indicates that the tremors may have been caused by fluid generated by dehydration processes from the slab.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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