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Characteristic activities of slow earthquakes in Japan.

Content Provider	Europe PMC
Author	OBARA, Kazushige
Copyright Year	2020
Abstract	Slow earthquakes are a recently discovered phenomenon that mainly occur updip and downdip of the seismogenic zones of great earthquakes along the subducting plate interface. The spatiotemporal activity of various slow earthquakes occurring in the Nankai subduction zone is characterized by along-strike heterogeneity and along-dip systematic changes. Various slow earthquakes are horizontally distributed at their own depths and along-strike segments can be observed with respect to this distribution downdip of the locked zone; however, slow and great earthquakes occur in the same depth range near the Nankai Trough and Japan Trench axes. The frequently observed spatiotemporal interactions between different slow earthquakes can be attributed to their sensitivity and the stress transfer of the surrounding areas. This stress transfer is expected to extend to the adjacent sections in the seismogenic zone. Therefore, precise monitoring of slow earthquakes is important for future evaluations of great earthquakes, which requires the long-term maintenance and continuous improvement of the high-quality observation networks.
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ISSN	03862208
Journal	Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences [Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci]
Volume Number	96
DOI	10.2183/pjab.96.022
PubMed Central reference number	PMC7443381
Issue Number	7
PubMed reference number	32788552
e-ISSN	13492896
Language	English
Publisher	The Japan Academy
Publisher Date	2020-01-01
Publisher Place	Tokyo, Japan
Access Restriction	Open
Rights License	This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2020 The Japan Academy
Subject Keyword	slow earthquake subduction zone tremor very-low-frequency earthquake slow slip event
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Physics and Astronomy Medicine Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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