Frictional and structural controls of seismic super-cycles at the Japan trench

The Community Code Verification Exercise for Simulating Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS)

(2020) Brittany A. Erickson et al.   SEISMOLOGICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Structural control and system-level behavior of the seismic cycle at the Nankai Trough

(2020) Qibin Shi et al.   EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE

Earthquake cycles in fault‐bend folds

(2020) Sharadha Sathiakumar et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Lower-crustal rheology and thermal gradient in the Taiwan orogenic belt illuminated by the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake

(2019) Chi-Hsien Tang et al.   Science Advances

Rapid mantle flow with power-law creep explains deformation after the 2011 Tohoku mega-quake

(2019) Ryoichiro Agata et al.   Nature Communications

Laboratory Slow Slip Events in Natural Geologic Materials

(2019) Matt J Ikari   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Modulation of fault strength during the seismic cycle by grain-size evolution around contact junctions

(2019) Sylvain Barbot   TECTONOPHYSICS

Sediment-starved trenches and rough subducting plates are conducive to tsunami earthquakes

(2019) Jacob Geersen   TECTONOPHYSICS

Complex Earthquake Sequences On Simple Faults

(2019) C. Cattania   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The slow earthquake spectrum in the Japan Trench illuminated by the S-net seafloor observatories

(2019) T. Nishikawa et al.   SCIENCE

Coupled afterslip and transient mantle flow after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

(2019) J. Muto et al.   Science Advances

Slow-slip, slow earthquakes, period-two cycles, full and partial ruptures, and deterministic chaos in a single asperity fault

(2019) Sylvain Barbot   TECTONOPHYSICS

Illuminating subduction zone rheological properties in the wake of a giant earthquake

(2019) Jonathan R. Weiss et al.   Science Advances

Tsunamigenic earthquake simulations using experimentally derived friction laws

(2018) S. Murphy et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Distribution of very low frequency earthquakes in the Nankai accretionary prism influenced by a subducting-ridge

(2018) Akiko Toh et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Asthenosphere Flow Modulated by Megathrust Earthquake Cycles

(2018) Sylvain Barbot   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

A review of the rupture characteristics of the 2011 Tohoku-oki Mw 9.1 earthquake

(2018) Thorne Lay   TECTONOPHYSICS

Shallow very-low-frequency earthquakes accompany slow slip events in the Nankai subduction zone

(2018) Masaru Nakano et al.   Nature Communications

Transient rheology of the Sumatran mantle wedge revealed by a decade of great earthquakes

(2018) Qiang Qiu et al.   Nature Communications

Upper and lower plate controls on the great 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake

(2018) Xin Liu et al.   Science Advances

Deformation of a Half‐Space from Anelastic Strain Confined in a Tetrahedral Volume

(2018) Sylvain Barbot   BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Slab2, a comprehensive subduction zone geometry model

(2018) Gavin P. Hayes et al.   SCIENCE

Slow-slip events in semi-brittle serpentinite fault zones

(2018) A. Goswami et al.   Scientific Reports

Crack Models of Repeating Earthquakes Predict Observed Moment-Recurrence Scaling

(2018) C. Cattania et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Modeling Seismic Cycles of Great Megathrust Earthquakes Across the Scales With Focus at Postseismic Phase

(2017) Stephan V. Sobolev et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

P and S wave attenuation tomography of the Japan subduction zone

(2017) Zewei Wang 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

Pulse-like partial ruptures and high-frequency radiation at creeping-locked transition during megathrust earthquakes

(2017) Sylvain Michel et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Rheological separation of the megathrust seismogenic zone and episodic tremor and slip

(2017) Xiang Gao et al.   NATURE

Imaging the distribution of transient viscosity after the 2016 M w 7.1 Kumamoto earthquake

(2017) James D. P. Moore et al.   SCIENCE

Source characteristics of the 2015 M W 7.8 Gorkha (Nepal) earthquake and its M W 7.2 aftershock from space geodesy

(2017) Wanpeng Feng et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

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

(2017) Tianhaozhe Sun et al.   Nature Communications

Importance of rheological heterogeneity for interpreting viscoelastic relaxation caused by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

(2017) Hisashi Suito   EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE

Earthquake supercycles on the Mentawai segment of the Sunda megathrust in the seventeenth century and earlier

(2017) Belle Philibosian et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Extending Resolution of Fault Slip With Geodetic Networks Through Optimal Network Design

(2017) Sharadha Sathiakumar et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Seismic potential of weak, near-surface faults revealed at plate tectonic slip rates

(2017) Matt J. Ikari et al.   Science Advances

Along-trench variation in seafloor displacements after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

(2017) Fumiaki Tomita et al.   Science Advances

Dynamic weakening and amorphization in serpentinite during laboratory earthquakes

(2016) Nicolas Brantut et al.   GEOLOGY

Structural segmentation controlled the 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha earthquake rupture in Nepal

(2016) Judith Hubbard et al.   GEOLOGY

The mechanism of partial rupture of a locked megathrust: The role of fault morphology

(2016) Qiang Qiu et al.   GEOLOGY

Heterogeneous rheology controlled postseismic deformation of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

(2016) Jun Muto et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Footprints of past earthquakes revealed in the afterslip of the 2010 M w 7.8 Mentawai tsunami earthquake

(2016) Lujia Feng et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Contribution of viscoelastic flow in earthquake cycles within the lithosphere-asthenosphere system

(2016) Valère Lambert et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Upper-plate controls on co-seismic slip in the 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake

(2016) Dan Bassett et al.   NATURE

Seafloor geodetic constraints on interplate coupling of the Nankai Trough megathrust zone

(2016) Yusuke Yokota et al.   NATURE

Himalayan strain reservoir inferred from limited afterslip following the Gorkha earthquake

(2016) David Mencin et al.   Nature Geoscience

Periodic slow slip triggers megathrust zone earthquakes in northeastern Japan

(2016) N. Uchida et al.   SCIENCE

Connecting slow earthquakes to huge earthquakes

(2016) Kazushige Obara et al.   SCIENCE

Possible scenarios for occurrence of M ~ 7 interplate earthquakes prior to and following the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake based on numerical simulation

(2016) Ryoko Nakata et al.   Scientific Reports

The damage is done: Low fault friction recorded in the damage zone of the shallow Japan Trench décollement

(2016) Tucker T. Keren et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Afterslip following the 2007 M w  8.4 Bengkulu earthquake in Sumatra loaded the 2010 M w  7.8 Mentawai tsunami earthquake rupture zone

(2016) Louisa L. H. Tsang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Stress-driven relaxation of heterogeneous upper mantle and time-dependent afterslip following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

(2016) Yan Hu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Numerical modeling of long-term earthquake sequences on the NE Japan megathrust: Comparison with observations and implications for fault friction

(2015) Nadaya Cubas et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Fault strength in thin-skinned tectonic wedges across the smectite-illite transition: Constraints from friction experiments and critical tapers

(2015) Telemaco Tesei et al.   GEOLOGY

Slow stick slip of antigorite serpentinite under hydrothermal conditions as a possible mechanism for slow earthquakes

(2015) Keishi Okazaki et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

First measurement of the displacement rate of the Pacific Plate near the Japan Trench after the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake using GPS/acoustic technique

(2015) Fumiaki Tomita et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

A 6600 year earthquake history in the region of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone earthquake

(2015) Jason R. Patton et al.   Geosphere

The 2011 Tohoku earthquake (Mw 9.0) sequence and subduction dynamics in Western Pacific and East Asia

(2015) Dapeng Zhao   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Earthquake supercycle in subduction zones controlled by the width of the seismogenic zone

(2015) Robert Herrendörfer et al.   Nature Geoscience

Migrating tremor off southern Kyushu as evidence for slow slip of a shallow subduction interface

(2015) Y. Yamashita et al.   SCIENCE

Frictional properties of the active San Andreas Fault at SAFOD: Implications for fault strength and slip behavior

(2015) B. M. Carpenter et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Effects of healing on the seismogenic potential of carbonate fault rocks: Experiments on samples from the Longmenshan Fault, Sichuan, China

(2015) Jianye Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Structural and thermal control of seismic activity and megathrust rupture dynamics in subduction zones: Lessons from the Mw 9.0, 2011 Tohoku earthquake

(2014) Claudio Satriano et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A water wall in the Tohoku forearc causing large crustal earthquakes

(2014) Dapeng Zhao et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Evidence of viscoelastic deformation following the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake revealed from seafloor geodetic observation

(2014) Shun-ichi Watanabe et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Prevalence of viscoelastic relaxation after the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake

(2014) Tianhaozhe Sun et al.   NATURE

Rheological profile across the NE Japan interplate megathrust in the source region of the 2011 Mw9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake

(2014) Ichiko Shimizu   EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE

Contributions of poroelastic rebound and a weak volcanic arc to the postseismic deformation of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

(2014) Yan Hu et al.   EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE

A detailed source model for the M w 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake reconciling geodesy, seismology, and tsunami records

(2014) Quentin Bletery et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

The scale-dependent slip pattern for a uniform fault model obeying the rate- and state-dependent friction law

(2014) Yan Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Seismic attenuation tomography of the Northeast Japan arc: Insight into the 2011 Tohoku earthquake (Mw9.0) and subduction dynamics

(2014) Xin Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Rupture to the Trench: Dynamic Rupture Simulations of the 11 March 2011 Tohoku Earthquake

(2013) J. E. Kozdon et al.   BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

A scenario for the generation process of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake based on dynamic rupture simulation: Role of stress concentration and thermal fluid pressurization

(2013) Yuta Mitsui et al.   EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE

Experimental evidence linking slip instability with seafloor lithology and topography at the Costa Rica convergent margin

(2013) Matt J. Ikari 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

Two-dimensional viscosity structure of the northeastern Japan islands arc-trench system

(2013) Jun Muto et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Stable creeping fault segments can become destructive as a result of dynamic weakening

(2013) Hiroyuki Noda et al.   NATURE

Strength evolution of a reactive frictional interface is controlled by the dynamics of contacts and chemical effects

(2012) François Renard et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A self-consistent mechanism for slow dynamic deformation and tsunami generation for earthquakes in the shallow subduction zone

(2012) Shuo Ma   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Geology and tectonics of Japanese islands: A review – The key to understanding the geology of Asia

(2012) Koji Wakita   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Frictional strength and healing behavior of phyllosilicate-rich faults

(2012) Telemaco Tesei et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Frictional properties of olivine at high temperature with applications to the strength and dynamics of the oceanic lithosphere

(2012) D. S. H. King et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Postseismic deformation following the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan: Implication for lower-crust rheology

(2012) Baptiste Rousset et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Coseismic slip distribution of the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake (M9.0) refined by means of seafloor geodetic data

(2012) T. Iinuma et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

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

(2012) Shuichi Kodaira et al.   Nature Geoscience

Tsunamigenic potential of the shallow subduction plate boundary inferred from slow seismic slip

(2012) Hiroko Sugioka et al.   Nature Geoscience

Chemical Origins of Frictional Aging

(2012) Yun Liu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A review of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake (Mw 9.0): Large-scale rupture across heterogeneous plate coupling

(2012) Fumiko Tajima et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Episodic slow slip events in the Japan subduction zone before the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

(2012) Yoshihiro Ito et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

A possible mechanism of M 9 earthquake generation cycles in the area of repeating M 7~8 earthquakes surrounded by aseismic sliding

(2011) Takane Hori et al.   EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE

Potential tsunamigenic faults of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

(2011) Takeshi Tsuji et al.   EARTH PLANETS AND SPACE

Frontal wedge deformation near the source region of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

(2011) Yoshihiro Ito et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Trench-normal variation in observed seafloor displacements associated with the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

(2011) M. Kido et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

3D modeling of the cycle of a great Tohoku-oki earthquake, considering frictional behavior at low to high slip velocities

(2011) B. Shibazaki et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

A shallow strong patch model for the 2011 great Tohoku-oki earthquake: A numerical simulation

(2011) Naoyuki Kato et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

On the transient response of serpentine (antigorite) gouge to stepwise changes in slip velocity under high-temperature conditions

(2011) Miki Takahashi et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Frictional properties of saponite-rich gouge from a serpentinite-bearing fault zone along the Gokasho-Arashima Tectonic Line, central Japan

(2011) Hiroki Sone et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Frictional ageing from interfacial bonding and the origins of rate and state friction

(2011) Qunyang Li et al.   NATURE

Coseismic and postseismic slip of the 2011 magnitude-9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

(2011) Shinzaburo Ozawa et al.   NATURE

Displacement Above the Hypocenter of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake

(2011) M. Sato et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2011) T. Fujiwara et al.   SCIENCE

A unified continuum representation of post-seismic relaxation mechanisms: semi-analytic models of afterslip, poroelastic rebound and viscoelastic flow

(2010) Sylvain Barbot et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Geologically current plate motions

(2010) Charles DeMets et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Towards inferring earthquake patterns from geodetic observations of interseismic coupling

(2010) Yoshihiro Kaneko et al.   Nature Geoscience

Slow Earthquakes Linked Along Dip in the Nankai Subduction Zone

(2010) H. Hirose et al.   SCIENCE

Common depth of slab-mantle decoupling: Reconciling diversity and uniformity of subduction zones

(2009) Ikuko Wada et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Frictional and hydrologic properties of clay-rich fault gouge

(2009) Matt J. Ikari et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Rheology of the Lower Crust and Upper Mantle: Evidence from Rock Mechanics, Geodesy, and Field Observations

(2008) Roland Bürgmann et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Partial rupture of a locked patch of the Sumatra megathrust during the 2007 earthquake sequence

(2008) A. Ozgun Konca et al.   NATURE

Earthquake Supercycles Inferred from Sea-Level Changes Recorded in the Corals of West Sumatra

(2008) K. Sieh et al.   SCIENCE