A review on slow earthquakes in the Japan Trench

T Nishikawa, S Ide, T Nishimura - Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2023 - Springer
Slow earthquakes are episodic slow fault slips. They form a fundamental component of
interplate deformation processes, along with fast, regular earthquakes. Recent …

A review of shallow slow earthquakes along the Nankai Trough

S Takemura, Y Hamada, H Okuda, Y Okada… - Earth, Planets and …, 2023 - Springer
Slow earthquakes occur at deep and shallow plate boundaries along the Nankai Trough.
Deep slow earthquakes are continuously distributed along the 30–40 km depth contours of …

The global range of subduction zone thermal models

EM Syracuse, PE van Keken, GA Abers - Physics of the Earth and …, 2010 - Elsevier
We model 56 segments of subduction zones using kinematically defined slabs based on
updated geometries from Syracuse and Abers (2006) to obtain a comprehensive suite of …

Geodetic imaging of plate motions, slip rates, and partitioning of deformation in Japan

JP Loveless, BJ Meade - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Interseismic deformation in Japan results from the combined effects of tectonic processes
including rotation of crustal blocks and the earthquake cycle process of elastic strain …

Juan de Fuca slab geometry and its relation to Wadati‐Benioff zone seismicity

PA McCrory, JL Blair, F Waldhauser… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A new model of the subducted Juan de Fuca plate beneath western North America allows
first‐order correlations between the occurrence of Wadati‐Benioff zone earthquakes and …

Stress map of Japan: Detailed nationwide crustal stress field inferred from focal mechanism solutions of numerous microearthquakes

T Uchide, T Shiina, K Imanishi - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Crustal stress is a crucial parameter for understanding tectonics and assessing the
occurrence of large earthquakes. Stress at seismogenic depths over a wide area has been …

Resolving depth-dependent subduction zone viscosity and afterslip from postseismic displacements following the 2011 Tohoku-oki, Japan earthquake

AM Freed, A Hashima, TW Becker, DA Okaya… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
We developed a 3-D, viscoelastic finite element model of the M9 2011 Tohoku-oki, Japan
earthquake capable of predicting postseismic displacements due to viscoelastic relaxation …

Thermal–petrological controls on the location of earthquakes within subducting plates

GA Abers, J Nakajima, PE van Keken, S Kita… - Earth and Planetary …, 2013 - Elsevier
We find that in young and warm subducting plates, earthquakes occur just below the Moho.
In older plates, earthquakes occur throughout the subducting oceanic crust, as well as the …

Dehydration of lawsonite could directly trigger earthquakes in subducting oceanic crust

K Okazaki, G Hirth - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Intermediate-depth earthquakes in cold subduction zones are observed within the
subducting oceanic crust, as well as the mantle,. In contrast, intermediate-depth earthquakes …

Along‐strike variation and migration of long‐term slow slip events in the western Nankai subduction zone, Japan

R Takagi, N Uchida, K Obara - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We detected 24 long‐term slow slip events (SSEs) in the western Nankai subduction zone,
Japan, from 1996 to 2017 using a newly developed method: grid‐based determination of …