Event Stratigraphy in a Hadal Oceanic Trench: The Japan Trench as Sedimentary Archive Recording Recurrent Giant Subduction Zone Earthquakes and Their Role in Organic Carbon Export to the Deep Sea

Megathrust earthquake drives drastic organic carbon supply to the hadal trench

(2019) A. Kioka et al.   Scientific Reports

Tsunami history over the past 2000 years on the Sanriku coast, Japan, determined using gravel deposits to estimate tsunami inundation behavior

(2019) Tomoko Goto et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Earthquake Impact on Active Margins: Tracing Surficial Remobilization and Seismic Strengthening in a Slope Sedimentary Sequence

(2019) Ariana Molenaar et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The ocean’s ultimate trashcan: Hadal trenches as major depositories for plastic pollution

(2019) Guyu Peng et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Larger earthquakes recur more periodically: New insights in the megathrust earthquake cycle from lacustrine turbidite records in south-central Chile

(2018) J. Moernaut et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Geological evidence of tsunamis and storms in the past 3800 years at a coastal lowland in the central Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

(2018) Satoshi Kusumoto et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Tectonically-triggered sediment and carbon export to the Hadal zone

(2018) Rui Bao et al.   Nature Communications

High-resolution chronology of sediment below CCD based on Holocene paleomagnetic secular variations in the Tohoku-oki earthquake rupture zone

(2017) Toshiya Kanamatsu et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Seafloor Displacement After the 2011 Tohoku-oki Earthquake in the Northern Japan Trench Examined by Repeated Bathymetric Surveys

(2017) Toshiya Fujiwara et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Depth-varying structural characters in the rupture zone of the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake

(2017) Shuichi Kodaira et al.   Geosphere

Quantitative reconstruction of temperature at a Jōmon site in the Incipient Jōmon Period in northern Japan and its implications for the production of early pottery and stone arrowheads

(2017) Hodaka Kawahata et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A revised budget for Cenozoic sedimentary carbon subduction

(2017) Peter D. Clift   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Large fault slip peaking at trench in the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake

(2017) Tianhaozhe Sun et al.   Nature Communications

Comparison between infaunal communities of the deep floor and edge of the Tonga Trench: Possible effects of differences in organic matter supply

(2016) Daniel Leduc et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Documenting large earthquakes similar to the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake from sediments deposited in the Japan Trench over the past 1500 years

(2016) Ken Ikehara et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Remobilization of surficial slope sediment triggered by the A.D. 2011 Mw9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and tsunami along the Japan Trench

(2016) Cecilia M. McHugh et al.   GEOLOGY

Online 13C and 14C Gas Measurements by EA-IRMS–AMS at ETH Zürich

(2016) Cameron P McIntyre et al.   RADIOCARBON

Tsunami earthquake can occur elsewhere along the Japan Trench-Historical and geological evidence for the 1677 earthquake and tsunami

(2016) H. Yanagisawa et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Shorter intervals between great earthquakes near Sendai: Scour ponds and a sand layer attributable to A.D. 1454 overwash

(2015) Yuki Sawai et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Geological and historical evidence of irregular recurrent earthquakes in Japan

(2015) Kenji Satake   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Hadal biosphere: Insight into the microbial ecosystem in the deepest ocean on Earth

(2015) Takuro Nunoura et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Historical and paleo-tsunami deposits during the last 4000 years and their correlations with historical tsunami events in Koyadori on the Sanriku Coast, northeastern Japan

(2015) Daisuke Ishimura et al.   Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Episodic subsidence and active deformation of the forearc slope along the Japan Trench near the epicenter of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake

(2014) Kohsaku Arai et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Reexamination of the A.D. 869 Jogan earthquake size from tsunami deposit distribution, simulated flow depth, and velocity

(2014) Yuichi Namegaya et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Friction properties of the plate boundary megathrust beneath the frontal wedge near the Japan Trench: an inference from topographic variation

(2014) Hiroaki Koge et al.   EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE

Extension of continental crust by anelastic deformation during the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake: The role of extensional faulting in the generation of a great tsunami

(2013) Takeshi Tsuji et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A slump in the trench: Tracking the impact of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

(2013) M. Strasser et al.   GEOLOGY

Tsunami-generated turbidity current of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

(2013) Kazuno Arai et al.   GEOLOGY

High-resolution seismic imaging in the Japan Trench axis area off Miyagi, northeastern Japan

(2013) Yasuyuki Nakamura et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Global reductions in seafloor biomass in response to climate change

(2013) Daniel O. B. Jones et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

High rates of microbial carbon turnover in sediments in the deepest oceanic trench on Earth

(2013) Ronnie N. Glud et al.   Nature Geoscience

Structure and Composition of the Plate-Boundary Slip Zone for the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake

(2013) F. M. Chester et al.   SCIENCE

Hadal disturbance in the Japan Trench induced by the 2011 Tohoku–Oki Earthquake

(2013) Kazumasa Oguri et al.   Scientific Reports

Large submarine landslides in the Japan Trench: A new scenario for additional tsunami generation

(2012) Kiichiro Kawamura et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Challenges of anticipating the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami using coastal geology

(2012) Yuki Sawai et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Coseismic fault rupture at the trench axis during the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake

(2012) Shuichi Kodaira et al.   Nature Geoscience

Survey of 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami inundation and run-up

(2011) Nobuhito Mori et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Shallow Dynamic Overshoot and Energetic Deep Rupture in the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake

(2011) S. Ide et al.   SCIENCE

The 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake: Displacement Reaching the Trench Axis

(2011) T. Fujiwara et al.   SCIENCE

Submarine Paleoseismology Based on Turbidite Records

(2010) Chris Goldfinger   Annual Review of Marine Science

Slip Distribution of the 1952 Kamchatka Great Earthquake Based on Near-Field Tsunami Deposits and Historical Records

(2010) B. T. MacInnes et al.   BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

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

(2010) John P. Loveless et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Hadal trenches: the ecology of the deepest places on Earth

(2009) Alan J. Jamieson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION