Plate subduction, and generation of earthquakes and magmas in Japan as inferred from seismic observations: An overview

A Hasegawa, J Nakajima, N Uchida, T Okada… - Gondwana …, 2009 - Elsevier
A dense nationwide seismic network recently constructed in Japan has been yielding large
volumes of high-quality data that have made it possible to investigate the seismic structure in …

Implications of Fault‐Valve Behavior From Immediate Aftershocks Following the 2023 Mj6.5 Earthquake Beneath the Noto Peninsula, Central Japan

A Kato - Geophysical Research Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mj6. 5 (Mw6. 2) event that occurred on 5 May 2023 near the northern shoreline
of the northeastern tip of the Noto Peninsula, central Japan, is the largest event to date in a …

An episode of fault-valve behaviour during compressional inversion?—The 2004 MJ6. 8 Mid-Niigata Prefecture, Japan, earthquake sequence

RH Sibson - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2007 - Elsevier
Principal ruptures of the 2004 Mid-Niigata Prefecture sequence involved close-to-pure
reverse slip on a 50–60° WNW dipping fault system uplifting a Miocene rift basin on its …

A normal-faulting seismic sequence triggered by the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake: Wholesale stress regime changes in the upper plate

A Kato, S Sakai, K Obara - Earth, planets and space, 2011 - Springer
We here show relocated hypocenters within a seismic sequence with normal faults in the
northern part of Ibaraki Prefecture, triggered after the M 9.0 2011 off the Pacific coast of …

Rupturing in overpressured crust during compressional inversion—the case from NE Honshu, Japan

RH Sibson - Tectonophysics, 2009 - Elsevier
Inboard from the subduction interface in NE Honshu, the crustal seismogenic zone which
overlies the dehydrating subducting slab is generally from 10 to 20 km deep. Arc-normal …

The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence

A Kato, K Nakamura, Y Hiyama - … of the Japan Academy, Series B, 2016 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Beginning in April 2016, a series of shallow, moderate to large earthquakes with associated
strong aftershocks struck the Kumamoto area of Kyushu, SW Japan. An M j 7.3 mainshock …

Stable forearc stressed by a weak megathrust: Mechanical and geodynamic implications of stress changes caused by the M= 9 Tohoku‐oki earthquake

K Wang, L Brown, Y Hu, K Yoshida… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Rupture‐zone averaged static stress drop in the 2011 M= 9 Tohoku‐Oki earthquake was
less than 5 MPa, but it caused a stress reversal in most of the offshore forearc, although the …

On the nature of intraplate earthquakes

P Talwani - Journal of Seismology, 2017 - Springer
Continental intraplate regions are characterized by uniform stresses over thousands of
kilometers. Local stresses, with wavelengths of tens to hundreds of kilometers can …

伽师震源区中等强度地震矩张量反演及其应力场特征

赵翠萍, 陈章立, 郑斯华, 张智强 - 地球物理学报, 2008 - dzkx.org
使用区域数字地震台站记录的宽频带长周期波形资料, 在时间域反演了1997~ 2004
年伽师震源区52 次中等强度地震的矩张量. 反演结果揭示, 在小尺度的伽师震源区内 …

Source rupture process of the 2004 Chuetsu, Mid-Niigata prefecture, Japan, earthquake inferred from waveform inversion with dense strong-motion data

K Asano, T Iwata - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of …, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The kinematic source rupture process of the 2004 Chuetsu, mid-Niigata prefecture, Japan,
earthquake, is estimated from strong-motion data by the linear waveform inversion method …