A decade of lessons learned from the 2011 Tohoku‐Oki earthquake

N Uchida, R Bürgmann - Reviews of Geophysics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku‐oki earthquake is one of the world's best‐recorded
ruptures. In the aftermath of this devastating event, it is important to learn from the complete …

Tsunami excitation in the outer wedge of global subduction zones

Q Qiu, S Barbot - Earth-science reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The world's most devastating local and ocean-wide tsunamis are generated by subduction
zone earthquakes, but the mechanisms for powerful seafloor uplift and tsunami generation …

Which earthquakes trigger damaging submarine mass movements: Insights from a global record of submarine cable breaks?

EL Pope, PJ Talling, L Carter - Marine Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Submarine landslides, debris flows and turbidity currents are significant geohazards for
seafloor infrastructure in many locations around the world. Their deposits potentially provide …

Tectonically-triggered sediment and carbon export to the Hadal zone

R Bao, M Strasser, AP McNichol, N Haghipour… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Sediments in deep ocean trenches may contain crucial information on past earthquake
history and constitute important sites of carbon burial. Here we present 14C data on bulk …

Documenting large earthquakes similar to the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake from sediments deposited in the Japan Trench over the past 1500 years

K Ikehara, T Kanamatsu, Y Nagahashi… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
The 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake and tsunami was the most destructive geohazard in
Japanese history. However, little is known of the past recurrence of large earthquakes along …

Great (≥ Mw8. 0) megathrust earthquakes and the subduction of excess sediment and bathymetrically smooth seafloor

DW Scholl, SH Kirby, R von Huene, H Ryan… - …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Using older and in part flawed data, suggested that thick sediment entering the subduction
zone (SZ) smooths and strengthens the trench-parallel distribution of interplate coupling …

Megathrust earthquake drives drastic organic carbon supply to the hadal trench

A Kioka, T Schwestermann, J Moernaut, K Ikehara… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
The giant 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake has been inferred to remobilise fine-grained, young
surface sediment enriched in organic matter from the slope into the> 7 km deep Japan …

Mass wasting along the Cascadia subduction zone: Implications for abyssal turbidite sources and the earthquake record

JC Hill, JT Watt, DS Brothers - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
The only submarine records of large (> M w 7) prehistoric earthquakes along the Cascadia
subduction zone are derived from sequences of deep sea turbidites interpreted to represent …

Remobilization of surficial slope sediment triggered by the AD 2011 Mw 9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and tsunami along the Japan Trench

CM McHugh, T Kanamatsu, L Seeber, R Bopp… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The AD 2011 Tohoku-Oki Mw 9 earthquake ruptured the megathrust up to the
Japan Trench with a large displacement and caused a catastrophic tsunami. This study is …