Long-term seismic behavior of a fault involved in a multiple-fault rupture: Insights from tectonic geomorphology along the Neodani Fault, central Japan

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2170-2190

  Kaneda, Heitaro ^a   Okada, Atsumasa ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; EARTHQUAKES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TECTONICS;

BEHAVIORAL MODELS; CHARACTERISTIC SLIPT; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE INTERVALS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURES; FAULT RUPTURES; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPINGS; MULTIPLE FAULTS; PALEOSEISMIC TRENCHES; SEISMIC BEHAVIORS; SLIP DISTRIBUTIONS; TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGIES;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PALEOSEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; NOBI FAULT ZONE;

EID: 54949152251     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070204     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Awata, Y., Y. Kariya, and K. Okumura (1999). Segmentation of the surface ruptures associated with the 1891 Nobi earthquake, central Honshu, Japan, based on the paleoseismic investigations, in Interim Report number EQ/99/3, Geol. Surv. Jpn., Tsukuba, 115-130 (in Japanese with English abstract).
2. Bessho, B. (1968). Movement of stable mountains (Sangaku no seido), Geol. Rep. Fac. Sci. Kanazawa Univ. 1, 117-266 (in Japanese).
3. Bolt, B. A. (2004). Earthquakes, Fifth Ed., W. H. Freeman and Company, New York.
4. Bronk Ramsey, C. (1995). Radiocarbon calibration and analysis of stratigraphy: the OxCal program, Radiocarbon 37, 425-430.
5. Bronk Ramsey, C. (2001). Development of the radiocarbon program OxCal, Radiocarbon 43, 355-363.
6. Earthquake Research Committee (ERC) (2005). Long-term evaluation of the Nobi fault zone, report for the Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion, Tokyo (in Japanese).
7. Enomoto, Y (2006). On the photograph of Neodani fault during Nobi earthquake appeared in Koto's article, Rekishijishin 21, 219-222 (in Japanese).
8. Fukuyama, E., and T. Mikumo (2006). Dynamic rupture propagation during the 1891 Nobi, central Japan, earthquake: a possible extension to the branched faults, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 96, 1257-1266.
9. Fukuyama, E., I. Muramatu, and T Mikumo (2007). Seismic moment of the 1891 Nobi, Japan, earthquake estimated from historical seismograms, Earth Planets Space 59, 553-559.
10. Hayashi, N. (1971). Lateral slip along the Neodani fault associated with the Nobi earthquake: a case study at Naka, Neo Village (Nobi jishin ni tomonau Neodani danso no suihei heniryo: Neo-mura Naka-chiku no baai), Geogr. Rev. Jpn. 44, 875-877 (in Japanese).
11. Hecker, S., T. E. Fumal, T. J. Powers, J. C. Hamilton, C. D. Garvin, and D. P. Schwartz (1993). Late Pleistocene-Holocene behavior of the Homestead Valley fault segment - 1992 Landers, Ca surface rupture, EOS Trans. AGU 74, no. 43 (Fall Meet. Suppl.), 612.
12. Hiki, T. (1891). Reconnaissance of deformations along the Neo valley, Mino (Mino-koku Neo-dani kanbotsu. no ryakkyo), J. Geogr. 3, 585-589 (in Japanese).
13. Iseki, K., and I. Moriya (1968). Former knowledges on the Neo-Valley fault, J. Geogr. 77, 155-165 (in Japanese).
14. Koto, B. (1892). Source of the great Nobi earthquake (Nobi oo-jishin no shingen), Toyo Gakugei Zussi 9, 147-158 (in Japanese).
15. Koto, B. (1893). On the cause of the great earthquake in central Japan, 1891, J. Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. Jpn. 5, 295-353.
16. Kumamoto, T., A. Okada, S. Toda, K. Ueda, and Y. Ikeda (1992). Trenching study of the Neodani fault of the Nobi active fault system at Kinbara, Gifu Prefecture in 1991 (1991 nen Nobi katsudansokei Neodani danso (Kinbara chiku) torenchi chousa), Active Fault Res. 10, 85-91 (in Japanese).
17. Machida, H., and F. Arai (2003). Atlas of Tephra in and around Japan, Revised Ed., Univ. Tokyo Press, Tokyo (in Japanese).
18. Matsuda, T. (1974). Surface faults associated with Nobi (Mino- Owari) earthquake of 1891, Japan, Special Bull. Earthq. Res. Inst. Univ. Tokyo 13, 85-126 (in Japanese with English abstract).
19. Matsuda, T., and A. Okada (1968). Studies of active faults in Japan, Quat. Res. (Daiyonki-Kenkyu) 7, 188-199 (in Japanese with English abstract).
20. McGill, S. F., and C. M. Rubin (1999). Surficial slip distribution on the central Emerson fault during the June 28, 1992, Landers earthquake, California, J. Geophys. Res. 104, 4811-4833.
21. Mikumo, T., and M. Ando (1976). A search into the faulting mechanism of the 1891 great Nobi earthquake, J. Phys. Earth 24, 63-87.
22. Miyakoshi, K., S. Ogata, T. Kakuda, Y. Satake, K. Tanaka, K. Kiho, Y. Inohara, and Y. Kanaori (1988). Activity of the Neodani fault: characteristics and analysis of fault movement at Kinbara, Gifu Prefecture, Industry Report number U88052, Central Research Institute of Electric Power (in Japanese with English abstract).
23. Muramatsu, I. (1962). Magnitude of the Nobi earthquake Oct. 28, 1891, J. Seismol. Soc. Jpn. 15, 341-342 (in Japanese).
24. Muramatsu, I., T. Matsuda, and A. Okada (2002). The 1891 Nobi Earthquake and Neo-dani Fault Zone, Kokon Shoin, Tokyo (in Japansese)
25. Nakano, M., J. Miyakoshi, and K. Yamaoka (2007). A new model for the fault beneath the sedimentary basin in the 1891 Nobi earthquake, Earth Planets Space 59, 13-19.
26. Nakata, T. and T. Imaizumi (Editors) (2002). Digital Active Fault Map of Japan, Univ. Tokyo Press, Tokyo (in Japanese).
27. Okada, A. (1986). Trenching study of the Neodani fault of the Nobi active fault system at Sano, Gifu Prefecture, in 1981, Active Fault Res. 3, 33-36 (in Japanese).
28. Okada, A., and T. Matsuda (1992). Late Quaternary activity of the Neodani (Neo-Valley) fault at Midori and Naka, Neo Village, central Japan, J. Geogr. 101, 19-37 (in Japanese with English abstract).
29. Okada, A., M. Watanabe, M. Ando, T. Tsukuda, and S. Hirano (1992). Estimation of paleo-seismicity in the Nobi active fault system, central Japan: excavation study of the Umehara fault, central strand in the Nobi active fault system, J. Geogr. 101, 1-18 (in Japanese with English abstract).
30. Omori, F. (1894). Overview of the Nobi earthquake (Nobi jishin gaikyo), in Report of the Great Earthquake of October 24, 1891 (Meiji 24 nen 10 gatsu 28 nichi daishin hokoku), Gifu Prefectural Observatory, Gifu, 48-88 (in Japanese).
31. Reimer, P. J., M. G. L. Baillie, E. Bard, A. Bayliss, J. W. Beck, C. J. H. Bertrand, P. G. Blackwell, C. E. Buck, G. S. Burr, K. B. Cutler, P. E. Damon, R. L. Edwards, R. G. Fairbanks, M. Friedrich, T. P. Guilderson, A. G. Hogg, K. A. Hughen, B. Kromer, G. McCormac, S. Manning, C. Bronk Ramsey, R. W. Reimer, S. Remmele, J. R. Southon, M. Stuiver, S. Talamo, F. W. Taylor, J. van der Plicht, and C. E. Weyhenmeyer (2004). IntCa104 terrestrial radiocarbon age calibration, 0-26 cal kyr BP, Radiocarbon 46, 1029-1058.
32. Research Group for Active Faults of Japan (1980). The active faults in Japan: sheet maps and inventories, Univ. Tokyo Press, Tokyo (in Japanese with English abstract).
33. Research Group for Active Faults of Japan (1991). The active faults in Japan: sheet maps and inventories, Revised Ed., Univ. Tokyo Press, Tokyo (in Japanese with English abstract).
34. Rockwell, T. K., S. Lindvall, M. Herzberg, D. Murbach, T. Dawson, and G. Berger (2000). Paleoseismology of the Johnson Valley, Kickapoo, and Homestead Valley faults: clustering of earthquakes in the eastern California shear zone, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 90, 1200-1236.
35. Rubin, C. M., and K. Sieh (1997). Long dormancy, low slip rate, and similar slip-per-event for the Emerson fault, eastern California shear zone, J. Geophys. Res. 102, 15,319-15,333.
36. Sato, H., A. Okada, T. Matsuda, and T. Kumamoto (1992). Geology of a trench across the Midori fault scarp, from the Nobi earthquake of 1891, central Japan, J. Geogr. 101, 556-572 (in Japanese with English abstract).
37. Scholz, C. H. (2002). The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting, Second Ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
38. Schwartz, D. P., and K. J. Coppersmith (1984). Fault behavior and characteristic earthquakes: examples from the Wasatch and San Andreas fault zones, J. Geophys. Res. 89, 5681-5698.
39. Sharp, R. V. (1982). Comparison of 1979 surface faulting with earlier displacements in the Imperial Valley, U.S. Geol. Surv. Profess. Pap. 1254, 213-221.
40. Sieh, K. (1996). The repetition of large-earthquake ruptures, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93, 3764-3771.
41. Sich, K., L. Jones, E. Hauksson, K. Hudnut, D. Eberhart-Phillips, T. Heaton, S. Hough, K. Hutton, H. Kanamori, A. Lilji, S. Lindvall, S. F. McGill, J. Mori, C. Rubin, J. A. Spotila, J. Stock, H. K. Thio, J. Treiman, B. Wernicke, and J. Zachariasen (1993). Near-field investigations of the Landers earthquake sequence, April to July 1992, Science 260, 171-176.
42. Sugisaki, R., and K. Shibata(1961). Geochemical study on ground water(I): subsurface geology and aquifers in the Nobi Plain, J. Geol. Soc. Jpn. 67, 335-345 (in Japanese with English abstract).
43. Sugisaki, R., and K. Shibata. (2003). Reappraisal of the Gifu-Ichinomiya fault: points atissue for recognition of concealed fault under an alluvial plain, J. Seismol. Soc. Jpn. 56, 281-296 (in Japanese with English abstract).
44. Tabata, S., Y. Hara, and K. Inoue (1999). Real circumstance of sediment movements caused by the 1891 Nohbi earthquake, J. Jpn. Soc. Eros. Control Eng. 52, 24-33 (in Japanese with English abstract).
45. Takemura, K., and T. Danhara (1994). A method for determination of volcanic glass concentrations in sedimentary sequences and its application to Quaternary studies, Geoarchaeol. Int. J. 9, 301-316.
46. Usami, T. (2003). Materials for Comprehensive List of Destructive Earth-quakes in Japan, [416]-2001, Latest Edition, Univ. Tokyo Press, Tokyo (in Japanese).
47. 14C records 26-50 cal kyr BP, Radiocarbon 46, 1225-1238.
48. Yoshioka, T., Y. Awata, T. Sasaki, T. Tanaka, and M. Yanagida (2003). Holocene faulting of the Ibigawa fault: trenching study in Fujihashi Village, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, Active Fault Res. 23, 63-68 (in Japanese with English abstract).
49. Yoshioka, T., Y. Awata, K. Shimokawa, H. Ishimoto, M. Yoshimura, and K. Matsuura (2002). Paleoseismicity of the Nukumi fault ruptured during the 189t Nobi earthquake, central Japan, revealed by a trenching study, J. Seismol. Soc. Jpn. 55, 301-309 (in Japanese with English abstract).
50. Yoshioka, T., Y. Kariya, T. Azuma, T. Matsuzaki, and T. Kawasaki (2001). Paleoseismological study of the Mugigawa fault, central Japan, in Annual Report on Active Fault and Paleoearthq. Res. no. 1, Geol. Surv. Jpn./ AIST, Tsukuba, 107-114 (in Japanese with English abstract).
51. Yoshiyama, A., and M. Yanagida (1995). Uplift rates estimated from relative heights of fluvial terrace surfaces and valley bottoms, J. Geogr. 104, 809-826 (in Japanese with English abstract).