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 …

Hypocentral dependent shallow slip distribution and rupture extents along a strike-slip fault

S Yao, H Yang - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural faults feature heterogeneities in geometry, material properties, and stress
distributions, posing great challenges in predicting fault slip behaviors. Among these factors …

Subduction as a smoothing machine: how multiscale dissipation relates precursor signals to fault geometry

P Venegas-Aravena, EG Cordaro - Geosciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Understanding the process of earthquake preparation is of utmost importance in mitigating
the potential damage caused by seismic events. That is why the study of seismic precursors …

Towards ground motion prediction for potential large earthquakes from interseismic locking models

S Yao, H Yang - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Interseismic locking models derived from geodetic data describe slip deficit accumulation on
faults, hence indicating the likelihood of future earthquakes. In recent years, locking models …

Spatiotemporal variations of shallow very low frequency earthquake activity southeast off the Kii Peninsula, along the Nankai Trough, Japan

S Takemura, K Obara, K Shiomi… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cross‐correlation analysis was applied to long‐term onshore broadband records from April
2004 to March 2021 to detect and relocate shallow very low frequency earthquakes (VLFEs) …

Dynamic rupture simulations based on interseismic locking models—taking the Suoerkuli section of the Altyn Tagh fault as an example

Y Gu, Z Zhang, W Wang, Z Wang - Geophysical Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
For simulating the dynamic rupture process in earthquake scenarios, the stress distribution
along the fault remains unclear owing to a lack of direct measurements. Regional stress …

Fractal spatial distributions of initial shear stress and frictional properties on faults and their impact on dynamic earthquake rupture

P Venegas‐Aravena… - Bulletin of the …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We investigate the influence of the heterogeneous slip‐weakening distance (DC) in dynamic
rupture simulations, in which DC is proportional to the fault irregularities. Specifically, we …

Mechanically coupled areas on the plate interface in the Nankai Trough, Japan and a possible seismic and aseismic rupture scenario for megathrust earthquakes

T Saito, A Noda - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying the stress distribution or finding mechanically coupled areas on the plate
interface is fundamentally important for conjecturing megathrust earthquakes that may occur …

Dynamic modeling of interactions between shallow slow‐slip events and subduction earthquakes

Q Meng, B Duan - Seismological Society of America, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Shallow slow‐slip events (SSEs) contribute to strain release near the shallow portions of
subduction interfaces and may contribute to promoting shallow subduction earthquakes …

A new mechanical perspective on a shallow megathrust near-trench slip from the high-resolution fault model of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

T Kubota, T Saito, R Hino - Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake generated a surprisingly large near-trench slip,
and earth scientists have devoted significant attention to understanding why. Some studies …