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1. Full Text Updated attenuation tomography of Japan subduction zone
by Wang, ZW and Zhao, DP
GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL, ISSN 0956-540X, 12/2019, Volume 219, Issue 3, pp. 1679 - 1697
We determine an updated model of P- and S-wave attenuation (Qp, Qs) tomography of the Japan subduction zone using an improved inversion scheme, and derive the... 
Subduction zone processes | LOW-FREQUENCY EARTHQUAKES | Inverse theory | MANTLE WEDGE | INSIGHT | NORTHEAST JAPAN | WAVE ATTENUATION | P-WAVE | GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS | SOUTHWEST JAPAN | Seismic tomography | THERMAL STRUCTURE | Seismic attenuation | BENEATH
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2. Full Text Sediment sources and sedimentation processes of 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami deposits on the Sendai Plain, Japan — Insights from diatoms, nannoliths and grain size distribution
by Szczuciński, Witold and Kokociński, Mikołaj and Rzeszewski, Michał and Chagué-Goff, Catherine and Cachão, Mario and Goto, Kazuhisa and Sugawara, Daisuke
Sedimentary Geology, ISSN 0037-0738, 12/2012, Volume 282, pp. 40 - 56
The 11th March 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami inundated the low-lying Sendai Plain (Japan) more than 5 km inland leaving sand and mud deposits over most of the area.... 
Tohoku-oki tsunami | Tsunami deposit | Grain size analysis | Diatoms | Nannoliths | SAND SHEETS | BANDA ACEH | FLOW SPEED | SOUTHWEST HOKKAIDO | PACIFIC COAST | NEW-GUINEA TSUNAMI | DECEMBER 2004 TSUNAMI | GEOLOGY | KURIL SUBDUCTION ZONE | INDIAN-OCEAN TSUNAMI | METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS | Marine sediments | Soil erosion | Tsunamis | Analysis | Sediment transport | Soils | Marine | Sand | Sediments | Mud | Deposition | Coarsening
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3. Full Text Episodic slow slip events in the Japan subduction zone before the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake
by Ito, Yoshihiro and Hino, Ryota and Kido, Motoyuki and Fujimoto, Hiromi and Osada, Yukihito and Inazu, Daisuke and Ohta, Yusaku and Iinuma, Takeshi and Ohzono, Mako and Miura, Satoshi and Mishina, Masaaki and Suzuki, Kensuke and Tsuji, Takeshi and Ashi, Juichiro
Tectonophysics, ISSN 0040-1951, 07/2013, Volume 600, pp. 14 - 26
We describe two transient slow slip events that occurred before the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake. The first transient crustal deformation, which occurred over a... 
Ocean-bottom pressure | Subduction zone | Slow slip event | The 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake | Volumetric strain | Earthquake triggering | LOW-FREQUENCY EARTHQUAKES | ARRAY | SILENT SLIP | DEFORMATION | GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS | SOUTHWEST JAPAN | TREMOR | INTERFACE | TOKACHI-OKI | DISPLACEMENT | FAULTS | Earthquakes | Seismology | Faults | Deformation | Slip | Rupture | Shear stress | Seismic response | Seismic phenomena | Pressure gages
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4. Full Text Early to Middle Miocene Ostracods from the Yatsuo Group, Central Japan: Significance for the Bathyal Fauna between Japan Sea and Northwest Pacific Ocean During the Back-Arc Spreading
by Hirokazu Ozawa
Paleontological Research, ISSN 1342-8144, 2016, Volume 20, Issue 2, pp. 121 - 144
This study investigated early to middle Miocene ostracods from the Yatsuo Group (ca. 17–15 Ma), located on the Japan Sea coast of central Japan. Ostracods from... 
early to middle Miocene | deep-sea passageway | Northwest Pacific | Yatsuo Group | Japan Sea | ostracods | PLEISTOCENE | DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT | ASSEMBLAGES | MIYAZAKI GROUP | SHIMANE PREFECTURE | SOUTHWEST JAPAN | TAXONOMY | PALEONTOLOGY | GUNMA PREFECTURE | PALEOCEANOGRAPHY | CRUSTACEA
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5. Full Text Mélange and its seismogenic roof décollement: A plate boundary fault rock in the subduction zone—An example from the Shimanto Belt, Japan
by Yujin Kitamura and Katsushi Sato and Eisei Ikesawa and Kotoe Ikehara-Ohmori and Gaku Kimura and Hideki Kondo and Kohtaro Ujiie and Celia Tiemi Onishi and Kuniyo Kawabata and Yoshitaka Hashimoto and Hideki Mukoyoshi and Hideki Masago
Tectonics, ISSN 0278-7407, 10/2005, Volume 24, Issue 5, pp. TC5012 - n/a
The Mugi Mélange located in western Shikoku of the Shimanto Belt shows systematic Y‐P deformation fabrics formed by microshear and pressure solution that... 
Melanges | general | Magnetic fabrics and anisotropy | Subduction zone processes | Marine Geology and Geophysics | Tectonophysics | Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism | Structural Geology | Plate boundary | mélange | accretionary complex | Shimanto | pseudotachylyte | seismogenic zone | OF-SEQUENCE THRUST | GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS | DEEP SEISMIC ZONE | SOUTHWEST JAPAN | SW JAPAN | VITRINITE REFLECTANCE | FLUID-INCLUSION | ACCRETIONARY PRISM | STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION | UNDERPLATING PROCESS | OCEANIC-CRUST | Environmental aspects | Subduction zones (Geology) | Seismological research | Observations
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6. Full Text Comparison of characteristic and Gutenberg–Richter models for time‐dependent M ≥ 7.9 earthquake probability in the Nankai‐Tokai subduction zone, Japan
by Parsons, Tom and Console, Rodolfo and Falcone, Giuseppe and Murru, Maura and Yamashina, Ken’ichiro
Geophysical Journal International, ISSN 0956-540X, 09/2012, Volume 190, Issue 3, pp. 1673 - 1688
SUMMARY Earthquake forecasts are usually underinformed, and can be plagued by uncertainty in terms of the most appropriate model, and parameter values used in... 
Spatial analysis | Probability distributions | Seismic cycle | Earthquake interaction, forecasting, and prediction | Statistical seismology | Time series analysis | NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT | SAN-ANDREAS FAULT | forecasting | IZMIT EARTHQUAKE | Earthquake interaction | PACIFIC COAST | SEISMIC GAP HYPOTHESIS | TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE | and prediction | GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS | SOUTHWEST JAPAN | B-VALUE | TROUGH | STRESS
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7. Full Text "Block-in-matrix" fabrics that lack shearing but possess composite cleavage planes: A sedimentary mélange origin for the Yuwan accretionary complex in the Ryukyu island arc, Japan
by Osozawa, Soichi and Morimoto, Junpei and Flower, Martin F.J
Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, ISSN 0016-7606, 2009, Volume 121, Issue 7-8, pp. 1190 - 1203
While melanges have been taken to be a significant component of accretionary complexes, the use of this term has been mostly descriptive, given the lack of... 
OPHIOLITE | SOUTHWEST JAPAN | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | CALIFORNIA | ROCKS | SUBDUCTION | PENINSULA | STYLES | EXAMPLE | SHIMANTO BELT | RIDGE | Stratification (Geology) | Research | Breccia | Analysis | Natural history | Tectonics (Geology)
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8. Full Text Seismic imaging of the Southwest Japan arc from the Nankai trough to the Japan Sea
by Liu, Xin and Zhao, Dapeng and Li, Sanzhong
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, ISSN 0031-9201, 03/2013, Volume 216, pp. 59 - 73
► High-resolution tomography under SW Japan forearc and back-arc is determined. ► Suboceanic earthquakes are relocated precisely using sP depth phases. ►... 
Southwest Japan | Subduction zones | sP depth phase | Earthquakes | Megathrust zone | Nankai trough | Asperity | SP depth phase | PHILIPPINE SEA | SMALL EPICENTRAL DISTANCES | SUBDUCTION-ZONE | MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKE | 1944 TONANKAI EARTHQUAKE | GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS | HYUGANADA REGION | VELOCITY STRUCTURE | COSEISMIC SLIP | SP DEPTH-PHASE | SEISMOGENIC ZONE | Subduction zones (Geology) | Ocean bottom | Seismology | Seismic tomography | Seamounts
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9. Full Text Split Philippine Sea plate beneath Japan
by Ide, Satoshi and Shiomi, Katsuhiko and Mochizuki, Kimihiro and Tonegawa, Takashi and Kimura, Gaku
Geophysical Research Letters, ISSN 0094-8276, 11/2010, Volume 37, Issue 21, pp. np - n/a
The shape of the Philippine Sea Plate subducting beneath western Japan is a crucial factor in understanding earthquakes and volcanic activity. We propose that... 
plate motion | Philippine Sea plate | slab tear | seismicity | DEEP TREMOR | SOUTHWEST JAPAN | VOLCANOS | GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | LOW-FREQUENCY EARTHQUAKES | SW JAPAN | SUBDUCTION | SHIKOKU | SLAB | MOHO | GEOMETRY | Fluids | Fluid dynamics | Earthquakes | Philippines | Fluid flow | Ridges | Active control | Seismic phenomena
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10. Full Text Three-dimensional seismic velocity structure and configuration of the Philippine Sea slab in southwestern Japan estimated by double-difference tomography
by Fuyuki Hirose and Junichi Nakajima and Akira Hasegawa
Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth, ISSN 0148-0227, 09/2008, Volume 113, Issue B9, pp. B09315 - n/a
Three‐dimensional seismic velocity structure in and around the Philippine Sea plate subducting beneath southwestern (SW) Japan is determined by applying... 
general | Subduction zones | Seismology | Tectonophysics | Tomography | Plate boundary | Seismicity and tectonics | Oceanic crust | Philippine Sea slab | southwestern Japan | double‐difference tomography | deep low‐frequency earthquakes | plate boundary | GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS | NORTHEASTERN JAPAN | TROUGH SEISMOGENIC ZONE | SLIP | SUBDUCTING OCEANIC-CRUST | HAYWARD FAULT | NANKAI TROUGH | EARTHQUAKE | PLATE | BENEATH | MANTLE
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11. Full Text Low-frequency earthquakes in Shikoku, Japan, and their relationship to episodic tremor and slip
by Shelly, David R and Nakamula, Sho and Beroza, Gregory C and Ide, Satoshi
Nature, ISSN 0028-0836, 07/2006, Volume 442, Issue 7099, pp. 188 - 191
Non-volcanic seismic tremor was discovered in the Nankai trough subduction zone in southwest Japan and subsequently identified in the Cascadia subduction zone.... 
SOUTHWEST JAPAN | PRESSURE | EVENTS | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE | 1946 NANKAI EARTHQUAKE | SILENT SLIP | DOUBLE-DIFFERENCE TOMOGRAPHY | BUNGO CHANNEL | BENEATH | REGION | Seismology | Earthquakes | Plate tectonics | Forecasting
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12. Full Text Geodetic imaging of plate motions, slip rates, and partitioning of deformation in Japan
by Loveless, John P and Meade, Brendan J
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, ISSN 0148-0227, 02/2010, Volume 115, Issue B2, p. n/a
Interseismic deformation in Japan results from the combined effects of tectonic processes including rotation of crustal blocks and the earthquake cycle process... 
subduction zones | Japan | geodesy | BLOCK ROTATION | GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS | SOUTHWEST JAPAN | STRAIN ACCUMULATION | NORTHEASTERN JAPAN | MEDIAN TECTONIC LINE | CONTINUOUS GPS OBSERVATION | GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM | ARC-ARC COLLISION | PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE | POSTSEISMIC CRUSTAL DEFORMATION | Space | Geodetics | Seismology | Plate tectonics | Rock deformation | Geodetic surveys | Faults | Deformation | Partitioning | Slip | Satellite navigation systems | Tectonics | Seismic phenomena | Global Positioning System
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