Pelagic smectite as an important factor in tsunamigenic slip along the Japan Trench

Strength characteristics of Japan Trench borehole samples in the high-slip region of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

(2015) Matt J. Ikari et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Frictional properties of incoming pelagic sediments at the Japan Trench: implications for large slip at a shallow plate boundary during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

(2014) Michiyo Sawai et al.   EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE

Earthquake faulting in subduction zones: insights from fault rocks in accretionary prisms

(2014) Kohtaro Ujiie et al.   Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

The thickness of subduction plate boundary faults from the seafloor into the seismogenic zone

(2013) Christie D. Rowe et al.   GEOLOGY

Dangers of Being Thin and Weak

(2013) K. Wang et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2013) F. M. Chester et al.   SCIENCE

Low Coseismic Shear Stress on the Tohoku-Oki Megathrust Determined from Laboratory Experiments

(2013) K. Ujiie et al.   SCIENCE

Low Coseismic Friction on the Tohoku-Oki Fault Determined from Temperature Measurements

(2013) P. M. Fulton et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2012) Shuichi Kodaira et al.   Nature Geoscience

Tsunami source of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

(2011) Yushiro Fujii et al.   EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE

Stuck in the mud? Earthquake nucleation and propagation through accretionary forearcs

(2011) D. R. Faulkner 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

Effect of clay content and mineralogy on frictional sliding behavior of simulated gouges: Binary and ternary mixtures of quartz, illite, and montmorillonite

(2010) Sheryl Tembe et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Fault zone fabric and fault weakness

(2009) Cristiano Collettini et al.   NATURE