{"id":2938,"date":"2020-09-11T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/?p=2938"},"modified":"2020-09-03T11:51:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T02:51:23","slug":"comprehensive-detection-of-very-low-frequency-earthquakes-off-the-hokkaido-and-tohoku-pacific-coasts-northeastern-japan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/research\/2938\/","title":{"rendered":"Comprehensive detection of very low frequency earthquakes off the Hokkaido and Tohoku Pacific coasts, northeastern Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Satoru Baba<sup>1<\/sup>, Shunsuke Takemura<sup>1<\/sup>,\nKazushige Obara<sup>1<\/sup>, and Akemi Noda<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Earthquake Research Institute,\nThe University of Tokyo<\/li><li>National Research Institute for\nEarth Science and Disaster Resilience<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Along subducting plate boundaries, slow earthquakes are mainly distributed in the vicinity of large slip areas of huge regular earthquakes. Characteristics of slow earthquakes suggest that their frictional conditions at plate boundaries differ from those of regular earthquakes. We detected very low frequency earthquakes (VLFEs), classified as one type of slow earthquakes, around Japan because their activity can be related to interplate coupling. The VLFEs along the Nankai Trough are distributed in the offshore areas in the depth ranges of 5\u201310 km (shallow VLFEs) and in the inland areas in the depth ranges of 30\u201340 km (deep VLFEs), whereas VLFEs off Tohoku are distributed only in the offshore (shallow) areas. The distribution of the shallow VLFE activity is more complicated along trench axes than deep VLFE activity. This suggests that the along-strike heterogeneity of the frictional properties is stronger in the shallow part than in the deep part of the plate boundary. Furthermore, the shallow VLFE activity shows an anticorrelation relationship with the spatial distribution of the interplate coupling ratio. Shallow VLFEs occur mainly in the area where seismic velocity is low; therefore, shallow slow earthquakes can be triggered by the high pore fluid pressure within weak interplate coupling zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"611\" height=\"367\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/1-1.png 611w, https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/1-1-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/1-1-500x300.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Figure 1. Moment density release rate (a) along the Nankai Trough and (b) along the Japan and Kuril trenches. Dark blue contours in (a) and (b) show the slip-deficit rate distribution with a 10 mm\/year interval and that with a 30 mm\/year interval, respectively. Dashed light blue lines are low seismic velocity areas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"527\" height=\"276\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/2-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/2-1.png 527w, https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/2-1-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/2-1-500x262.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 85vw, 527px\" \/><figcaption>Figure 2. Relationship between the moment density release rate and interplate coupling ratio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satoru Baba1, Shunsuke Takemura1, Kazushige Obara1, and Akemi Noda2 Earthquake Research Institute, The Univers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/research\/2938\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comprehensive detection of very low frequency earthquakes off the Hokkaido and Tohoku Pacific coasts, northeastern Japan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}