Geodetic imaging of plate motions, slip rates, and partitioning of deformation in Japan

JP Loveless, BJ Meade - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Interseismic deformation in Japan results from the combined effects of tectonic processes
including rotation of crustal blocks and the earthquake cycle process of elastic strain …

Strain partitioning and interplate coupling along the northern margin of the Philippine Sea plate, estimated from Global Navigation Satellite System and Global …

T Nishimura, Y Yokota, K Tadokoro, T Ochi - Geosphere, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Southwest Japan is located in the subduction margin between the continental Amurian and
oceanic Philippine Sea plates. Recent land GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and …

Segmentation and Holocene surface faulting on the Median Tectonic Line, southwest Japan

H Tsutsumi, A Okada - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
The Median Tectonic Line (MTL) active fault system is a 300‐km‐long, arc‐parallel, right‐
lateral strike‐slip fault related to oblique subduction of the Philippine Sea plate beneath the …

History of basin formation and tectonic evolution at the termination of a large transcurrent fault system: deformation mode of central Kyushu, Japana

Y Itoh, K Takemura, H Kamata - Tectonophysics, 1998 - Elsevier
The central part of the Kyushu Island is a locus of active arc-volcanism associated with
subduction of the Philippine Sea plate. Being located at a bend in the boundary between the …

Geo-slicer, a newly invented soil sampler, for high-resolution active fault studies

T NAKATA, K SHIMAZAKI - Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), 1997 - jstage.jst.go.jp
We invented a completely new simple method and new equipment necessary for high-
resolution active fault studies. Vertical thin sections of unconsolidated soil layers are …

Multiscale off-fault brecciation records coseismic energy budget of principal fault zone

G Agroli, A Okamoto, M Uno, N Tsuchiya - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Breccia and pulverized rock are typical textures in off-fault damage adjacent to a main
seismogenic zone. Previously, by estimating the energy required to advance the rupture in …

Reactivation of an old plate interface as a strike-slip fault in a slip-partitioned system: Median Tectonic Line, SW Japan

H Sato, N Kato, S Abe, A Van Horne, T Takeda - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
In models for strain-partitioning at obliquely-convergent plate boundaries, trench-parallel
slip occurs on a vertical fault. Trench-parallel slip at the Nankai subduction zone, SW Japan …

Tectonic model and fault segmentation of the Median Tectonic Line active fault system on Shikoku, Japan

M Ikeda, S Toda, S Kobayashi, Y Ohno, N Nishizaka… - …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Fault segmentation models have been developed by using various types of information
about faults, including both geological and geophysical data, in order to predict the size of …

Neotectonic faulting and forearc sliver motion along the Atirro–Río Sucio fault system, Costa Rica, Central America

P Walter Montero, JC Lewis, JS Marshall… - …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Atirro–Río Sucio fault system forms a major northwest-trending strike-slip fault zone in
east-central Costa Rica. We examined the kinematics and temporal evolution of this fault …

Right-lateral offset associated with the most recent earthquake on the Ikeda fault of the Median Tectonic Line, southwest Japan, revealed by ground-penetrating radar …

A Patria, H Kimura, Y Kitade, H Tsutsumi - Progress in Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Median Tectonic Line (MTL) is an arc-parallel strike-slip fault that
accommodates much of the arc-parallel component of the oblique convergence of the …