The state of stress on the fault before, during, and after a major earthquake

EE Brodsky, JJ Mori, L Anderson… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Earthquakes occur by overcoming fault friction; therefore, quantifying fault resistance is
central to earthquake physics. Values for both static and dynamic friction are required, and …

Faulting processes unveiled by magnetic properties of fault rocks

T Yang, YM Chou, EC Ferré, MJ Dekkers… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
As iron‐bearing minerals—ferrimagnetic minerals in particular—are sensitive to stress,
temperature, and presence of fluids in fault zones, their magnetic properties provide …

Review of major shale-dominated detachment and thrust characteristics in the diagenetic zone: Part II, rock mechanics and microscopic scale

CK Morley, C von Hagke, R Hansberry, A Collins… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Characterising large shale thrust zone behaviour down to the diagenetic-metamorphic
boundary is both simple and complex. The task in critical taper, analogue and numerical …

Structure and lithology of the Japan Trench subduction plate boundary fault

JD Kirkpatrick, CD Rowe, K Ujiie, JC Moore… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2011 Mw9. 0 Tohoku‐oki earthquake ruptured to the trench with maximum
coseismic slip located on the shallow portion of the plate boundary fault. To investigate the …

Earthquake slip surfaces identified by biomarker thermal maturity within the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake fault zone

HS Rabinowitz, HM Savage, PJ Polissar… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Extreme slip at shallow depths on subduction zone faults is a primary contributor to tsunami
generation by earthquakes. Improving earthquake and tsunami risk assessment requires …

Coupled evolution of deformation, pore fluid pressure, and fluid flow in shallow subduction forearcs

T Sun, S Ellis, D Saffer - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Deformation and fluid flow in subduction zone forearcs are dynamically coupled, but our
quantitative understanding of their coupling is incomplete. In this work, we investigate the …

Thermal conductivities, thermal diffusivities, and volumetric heat capacities of core samples obtained from the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST)

W Lin, PM Fulton, RN Harris, O Tadai… - Earth, Planets and …, 2014 - Springer
We report thermal conductivities, thermal diffusivities, and volumetric heat capacities
determined by a transient plane heat source method for four whole-round core samples …

NOAA marine geophysical data and a GEBCO grid for the topographical analysis of Japanese Archipelago by means of GRASS GIS and GDAL Library

P Lemenkova - Geomatics and Environmental Engineering, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
This article analyzes topographical and geological settings in the Japan Archipelago for
comparative raster data processing using GRASS GIS. Data include bathymetric and …

The postearthquake stress state on the Tohoku megathrust as constrained by reanalysis of the JFAST breakout data

EE Brodsky, D Saffer, P Fulton… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST) endeavored to establish the stress
state on the shallow subduction megathrust that slipped during the M 9 Tohoku earthquake …

Seismic heating signatures in the Japan Trench subduction plate-boundary fault zone: evidence from a preliminary rock magnetic 'geothermometer'

T Yang, MJ Dekkers, B Zhang - … to the Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Frictional heating during earthquake rupture reveals important information on earthquake
mechanisms and energy dissipation. The amount of annealing varies widely and is, as yet …