Tomography of northeast Japan forearc and its implications for interplate seismic coupling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 16, 2003, Pages

  Mishra, O P ^a   Zhao, Dapeng ^a   Umino, N ^b   Hasegawa, A ^b  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asperities; Fluids; Forearc; Seismic coupling; Tomography

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FLUIDICS; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

INTERPLATE COUPLING; SEISMIC COUPLING;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

ASPERITY; FOREARC BASIN; P-WAVE; PLATE BOUNDARY; S-WAVE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TOMOGRAPHY;

(NORTHEAST); JAPAN;

EID: 0344099439     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017736     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Hasegawa, A., S. Horiuchi, and N. Umino, Seismic structure of the north-eastern Japan convergent margin: A synthesis, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 22,295 22,311, 1994.
2. Heki, K., S. Miyazaki, and H. Tsuji, Silent fault slip following an interplate thrust earthquake at the Japan Trench, Nature, 386, 592-597, 1997.
3. Hino, R., S. Ito, H. Shiobara, H. Shimamura, T. Sato, T. Kanazawa, J. Kasahara, and A. Hasegawa, Aftershock distribution of the 1994 Sanriku-oki earthquake (Mw 7.7) revealed by ocean bottom seismographic observation, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 21,697-21,710, 2000.
4. Husen, S., E. Kissling, and E. Flueh, Local earthquake tomography of shallow subduction in north Chile: A combined onshore and offshore study, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 28,183-28,198, 2000.
5. Kanamori, H., Great earthquakes at the island arcs and the lithosphere, Tectonophysics, 12, 187-198, 1971.
6. Kawasaki, I., Y. Asai, and Y. Tamura, Space-time distribution of interpolate moment release including slow earthquakes and the seismo-geodetic coupling in the Sanriku-oki region along the Japan trench, Tectonophysics, 330, 267-283, 2001.
7. Matsuzawa, T., T. Igarashi, and A. Hasegawa, Characteristic small-earthquake sequence off Sanriku, northeastern Honshu, Japan, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(11), 1543, doi:10.1029/2001GL014632, 2002.
8. Miura, S., S. Kodaira, A. Nakanishi, T. Tetsuro, N. Takahashi, N. Hirata, and Y. Kaneda, Structural characteristics controlling the seismicity of southern Japan Trench fore-arc region, revealed by ocean bottom seismographic data, Tectonophysics, 363, 79-102, 2003.
9. Nagai, R., M. Kikuchi, and Y. Yamanaka, Comparative study on the source process of recurrent large earthquakes in Sanriku-oki Region: The 1968 Tokachi-oki earthquake and the 1994 Sanriku-oki earthquake (in Japanese with English abstract), Zisin, 54, 267-280, 2001.
10. Pacheco, J. F., L. R. Sykes, and C. H. Scholz, Nature of seismic coupling along simple plate boundaries of the subduction type, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 14,133-14,159, 1993.
11. Seno, T., Tsunami earthquakes as transient phenomena, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29(10), 1419, doi:10.1029/2002GL014868, 2002.
12. Suyehiro, K., and A. Nishizawa, Crustal structure and seismicity beneath the forearc off northeastern Japan, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 22,331-22,347, 1994.
13. Tanioka, Y., and T. Seno, Sediment effect on tsunami generation of the 1896 Sanriku tsunami earthquake, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 3389-3392, 2001.
14. Umino, N., A. Hasegawa, and T. Matsuzawa, sP depth phase at small epicentral distances and estimated subducting plate boundary, Geophys. J. Int., 120, 356- 366, 1995.
15. Zhao, D., A. Hasegawa, and S. Horiuchi, Tomographic imaging of P and S wave velocity structure beneath northeastern Japan, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 19,909-19,928, 1992.
16. Zhao, D., T. Matsuzawa, and A. Hasegawa, Morphology of the subducting slab boundary in the northeastern Japan arc, Phys. Earth Planet Inter., 102, 89-104, 1997.
17. Zhao, D., O. P. Mishra, and R. Sanda, Influence of fluids and magma on earthquakes: Seismological evidence, Phys. Earth Planet Inter., 132, 249-267, 2002.