Invited review paper: Some outstanding issues in the study of great megathrust earthquakes—The Cascadia example

K Wang, AM Tréhu - Journal of Geodynamics, 2016 - Elsevier
Because of a combination of new observational tools and a flurry of large megathrust
earthquakes, tremendous progress has been made in recent years towards understanding …

New empirical earthquake source‐scaling laws

KKS Thingbaijam, PM Mai… - Bulletin of the …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We develop new empirical scaling laws for rupture width W⁠, rupture length L⁠, rupture
area A⁠, and average slip D⁠, based on a large database of rupture models. The database …

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 …

Three-dimensional splay fault geometry and implications for tsunami generation

GF Moore, NL Bangs, A Taira, S Kuramoto, E Pangborn… - Science, 2007 - science.org
Megasplay faults, very long thrust faults that rise from the subduction plate boundary
megathrust and intersect the sea floor at the landward edge of the accretionary prism, are …

Shallow very-low-frequency earthquakes accompany slow slip events in the Nankai subduction zone

M Nakano, T Hori, E Araki, S Kodaira, S Ide - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Recent studies of slow earthquakes along plate boundaries have shown that tectonic tremor,
low-frequency earthquakes, very-low-frequency events (VLFEs), and slow-slip events …

Rheological separation of the megathrust seismogenic zone and episodic tremor and slip

X Gao, K Wang - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Episodic tremor and accompanying slow slip, together called ETS, is most often observed in
subduction zones of young and warm subducting slabs,,. ETS should help us to understand …

Seismic slip propagation to the updip end of plate boundary subduction interface faults: Vitrinite reflectance geothermometry on Integrated Ocean Drilling Program …

A Sakaguchi, F Chester, D Curewitz, O Fabbri… - …, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Seismic faulting along subduction-type plate boundaries plays a fundamental role in
tsunami genesis. During the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Nankai Trough …

Source rupture processes of the 1944 Tonankai earthquake and the 1945 Mikawa earthquake derived from low-gain seismograms

M Kikuchi, M Nakamura, K Yoshikawa - Earth, Planets and Space, 2003 - jstage.jst.go.jp
In the 1940's, several destructive earthquakes occurred in western Japan. Seismograms in
this period were usually recorded on smoked paper and the quality was poor compared to …

Waveform tomography imaging of a megasplay fault system in the seismogenic Nankai subduction zone

R Kamei, RG Pratt, T Tsuji - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2012 - Elsevier
We apply Frequency-domain Waveform Tomography to form quantitative, high-resolution P-
wave velocity images of a megasplay fault system within the central Nankai subduction zone …

[PDF][PDF] NanTroSEIZE: the IODP Nankai Trough seismogenic zone experiment

HJ Tobin, M Kinoshita - Scientific Drilling, 2006 - sd.copernicus.org
Figure 1-A. The Nankai Trough region of southwestern Japan is the locus of subduction of
the Philippine Sea plate beneath Honshu and Shikoku islands. Shaded boxes are the …