Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon

JS Albert, AC Carnaval, SGA Flantua, LG Lohmann… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Amazonian environments are being degraded by modern industrial and agricultural
activities at a pace far above anything previously known, imperiling its vast biodiversity …

Segmentation and supercycles: A catalog of earthquake rupture patterns from the Sumatran Sunda Megathrust and other well-studied faults worldwide

B Philibosian, AJ Meltzner - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
After more than 100 years of earthquake research, earthquake forecasting, which relies on
knowledge of past fault rupture patterns, has become the foundation for societal defense …

Time and space distribution of coseismic slip of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake as inferred from tsunami waveform data

K Satake, Y Fujii, T Harada… - Bulletin of the …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A multiple time window inversion of 53 high‐sampling tsunami waveforms on ocean‐bottom
pressure, Global Positioning System, coastal wave, and tide gauges shows a temporal and …

Applications of geochemistry in tsunami research: A review

C Chagué-Goff, W Szczuciński, T Shinozaki - Earth-Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Much progress has been made since the first published studies of tsunami deposits nearly
30 years ago. Geochemistry is now a much more widely used proxy in tsunami research …

A review of the rupture characteristics of the 2011 Tohoku-oki Mw 9.1 earthquake

T Lay - Tectonophysics, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2011 March 11 Tohoku-oki great (Mw 9.1) earthquake ruptured the plate
boundary megathrust fault offshore of northern Honshu with estimates of shallow slip of 50 m …

Highly variable recurrence of tsunamis in the 7,400 years before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

CM Rubin, BP Horton, K Sieh, JE Pilarczyk… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami caught millions of coastal residents
and the scientific community off-guard. Subsequent research in the Indian Ocean basin has …

Stress‐driven relaxation of heterogeneous upper mantle and time‐dependent afterslip following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

Y Hu, R Bürgmann, N Uchida… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding of postseismic deformation following great subduction zone earthquakes is
complicated by the combined effects of viscoelastic relaxation of earthquake‐induced …

[HTML][HTML] Geological evidence for past large earthquakes and tsunamis along the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand

K Clark, J Howarth, N Litchfield, U Cochran, J Turnbull… - Marine Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand, has not produced large
subduction earthquakes within the short written historic period (~ 180 years) and the …

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 …

Coastal staircase sequences reflecting sea-level oscillations and tectonic uplift during the Quaternary and Neogene

K Pedoja, L Husson, ME Johnson, D Melnick… - Earth-Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Many coasts feature sequences of Quaternary and Neogene shorelines that are shaped by
a combination of sea-level oscillations and tectonics. We compiled a global synthesis of sea …