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 …

Variation in slip behaviour along megathrusts controlled by multiple physical properties

D Bassett, DJ Shillington, LM Wallace, JL Elliott - Nature Geoscience, 2025 - nature.com
Megathrusts, faults at the plate interface in subduction zones, exhibit substantial
spatiotemporal variability in their slip behaviour. Many previous attempts to discern the …

Ultralow frictional healing explains recurring slow slip events

S Shreedharan, D Saffer, LM Wallace, C Williams - Science, 2023 - science.org
Plate motion on shallow subduction megathrusts is accommodated by a spectrum of tectonic
slip modes. However, the frictional properties and conditions that sustain these diverse slip …

Observation of shallow slow earthquakes by distributed acoustic sensing using offshore fiber‐optic cable in the Nankai trough, southwest Japan

S Baba, E Araki, Y Yamamoto, T Hori… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Off Cape Muroto area, along the Nankai Trough in southwest Japan, is a typical
area with adjacent occurrences of slow and megathrust earthquakes. High‐resolution …

Revisiting seismic energy of shallow tremors: Amplifications due to site and propagation path effects near the Nankai Trough

S Takemura, K Emoto, S Yabe - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the effects of the propagation path and site amplification of shallow tremors
along the Nankai Trough. Using far‐field S‐wave propagation from intraslab earthquake …

Crustal structure of the Nankai subduction zone revealed by two decades of onshore‐offshore and ocean‐bottom seismic data: Implications for the dimensions and …

D Bassett, A Arnulf, S Kodaira… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Two‐decades of onshore‐offshore, ocean‐bottom seismometer, and passive‐source data
are integrated to obtain high‐resolution 3‐D constraints on the architecture of the Nankai …

Co‐occurrence of low and very low frequency earthquakes explained from dynamic modeling

X Wei, Y Liu, J Xu, X Chen - Geophysical Research Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Very low‐frequency earthquakes (VLFs) are characterized by longer source duration and
smaller stress drop than regular earthquakes of similar magnitude. Recent studies have …

Geological fingerprints of deep slow earthquakes: A review of field constraints and directions for future research

JP Platt, D Grujic, NJ Phillips, S Piazolo… - …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Slow earthquakes, including low-frequency earthquakes, tremor, and geodetically detected
slow-slip events, have been widely detected, most commonly at depths of 40–60 km in …

Detectability analysis of very low frequency earthquakes: methods and application in Nankai using F-net and DONET broad-band seismometers

S Takemura, S Baba, S Yabe… - Geophysical Journal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
For a more quantitative discussion of slow earthquake activity, we evaluated the detectable
limits of very low frequency earthquakes (VLFEs), which are seismic slow earthquakes …

[HTML][HTML] Potential fluid migration process inferred from integrated active-source seismic imaging in the Nankai Trough subduction zone off Cape Muroto, Japan

K Shiraishi, G Fujie, R Arai, Y Nakamura - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2025 - Elsevier
We investigate the potential fluid migration process in a plate subduction zone on the basis
of integrated active-source seismic imaging from multichannel seismic (MCS) reflection and …