Slow earthquake scaling reconsidered as a boundary between distinct modes of rupture propagation

S Ide, GC Beroza - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The scaling law for slow earthquakes, which is a linear relationship between seismic
moment and duration, was proposed 15 y ago and initiated a debate on the difference in …

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 …

Mechanical and hydrological effects of seamount subduction on megathrust stress and slip

T Sun, D Saffer, S Ellis - Nature Geoscience, 2020 - nature.com
Subduction of rough seafloor and seamounts is thought to impact a broad range of
geodynamic processes, including megathrust slip behaviour, forearc fluid flow and long-term …

Characteristic activities of slow earthquakes in Japan

K Obara - Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, 2020 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Slow earthquakes are a recently discovered phenomenon that mainly occur updip and
downdip of the seismogenic zones of great earthquakes along the subducting plate …

Shallow slow slip events along the Nankai Trough detected by GNSS-A

Y Yokota, T Ishikawa - Science Advances, 2020 - science.org
Various slow earthquakes (SEQs), including tremors, very low frequency events, and slow
slip events (SSEs), occur along megathrust zones. In a shallow plate boundary region …

Direct assessment of the hydraulic structure of the plate boundary at the toe of the Nankai accretionary prism

J Pwavodi, ML Doan - Geophysical Journal International, 2024 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY The Nankai Trough is a locus of slow slip, low-frequency earthquakes, and large
magnitude (M w> 8) earthquakes. It is usually assumed that high pore pressure contributes …

Spatiotemporal distribution of shallow tremors along the Nankai Trough, southwest Japan, as determined from waveform amplitudes and cross‐correlations

K Tamaribuchi, M Ogiso, A Noda - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Shallow slow earthquakes in subduction zones are related to spatiotemporal variations of
stress on the plate boundary adjacent to a megathrust earthquake. A dense network …

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 …

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) …

Resolvability of the centroid‐moment‐tensors for shallow seismic sources and improvements from modeling high‐frequency waveforms

B Hejrani, H Tkalčić - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Shallow earthquakes in the depth range 0–30 km make up more than 60% of all world's
earthquakes. However, resolving their seismic source parameters such as the depth and …