Periodic slow slip triggers megathrust zone earthquakes in northeastern Japan-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Periodic slow slip triggers megathrust zone earthquakes in northeastern Japan

Published:2016-01-29 Issue:6272 Volume:351 Page:488-492
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Uchida Naoki¹,Iinuma Takeshi²,Nadeau Robert M.³,Bürgmann Roland⁴,Hino Ryota¹

Affiliation:

1. Graduate School of Science and International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, 6-6, Aramaki-aza-aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.

2. International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, 468-1, Aramaki-aza-aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-0845, Japan.

3. Berkeley Seismological Laboratory and Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California, Berkeley, 211 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-4767, USA.

4. Berkeley Seismological Laboratory and Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, 389 McCone Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-4767, USA.

Abstract

A silent and periodic earthquake trigger Large earthquakes that hit places such as Japan seem to be preceded by subtle and silent deformation. Uchida et al. show that these “slow-slip events” are quasi-periodic in the megathrust zone in Japan. Slow-slip events occurred every 1 to 6 years and frequently were correlated with large earthquakes, including the great 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake. The quasi-periodic behavior stretches back to at least 1930 and provides an important constraint for seismic hazard assessment in the region. Science , this issue p. 488

Funder

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan

U.S. NSF

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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