Recent studies on seismic imaging of the Northwest Pacific and East Asian region are
reviewed. High-resolution tomographic images reveal significant lateral heterogeneities in …

Body-wave and surface-wave tomography, receiver-function imaging, and shear-wave
splitting measurements have shown that seismic anisotropy and heterogeneity coexist in all …

In this article we first introduce the methodology of multiscale seismic tomography and the
way to interpret the obtained tomographic images, and then review the significant recent …

We review the significant recent results of multiscale seismic tomography of the Western-
Pacific subduction zones and discuss their implications for seismotectonics, magmatism …

We determined 3-D P-wave velocity structure down to 700km depth under the Japan Islands
using a large number of arrival time data from local and teleseismic events simultaneously …

Abstract The Japan Sea is a part of the western Pacific trench-arc-backarc system and has a
complex bathymetry and intense seismic activities in the crust and upper mantle. Local …

Seismic tomography is a powerful tool for map** the three-dimensional structure of the
Earth's interior. Tomographic images obtained in the past four decades have greatly …

We review recent findings on the causal mechanism of the great 2011 Tohoku earthquake
(Mw 9.0) sequence and related issues on seismic structure and subduction dynamics in …

Low-frequency (LF) microearthquakes are detected in the lower crust and uppermost mantle
beneath western Japan, which may reflect fluid and magmatic activity in the subduction …

High-resolution tomographic images of the crust and upper mantle beneath Harrat Al-
Madinah, Saudi Arabia, are obtained by inverting high-quality arrival-time data of local …