Microseismicity around rupture area of the 1944 Tonankai earthquake from ocean bottom seismograph observations

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May 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004e%26psl.222..561o&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 222, Issue 2, p. 561-572.

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Nankai Trough, 1944 Tonankai Earthquake, Microseismicity, Seismogenic Zone, Ocean Bottom Seismograph

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Along the Nankai trough, southwestern Japan, the Philippine Sea plate (PSP) is subducting beneath the Eurasian plate, and large interplate earthquakes have occurred repeatedly with a recurrence interval of about 100-200 years. The most recent large thrust event in the eastern Nankai trough off Kii Peninsula was the 1944 Tonankai earthquake. In this region, current seismicity is very low and hypocenters are not determined accurately by the land seismic network. We conducted microseismicity observations around the rupture area of the 1944 Tonankai earthquake using ocean bottom seismographs (OBSs). Hypocenters were determined using a 2-D seismic velocity structure model based on an airgun-OBS seismic survey. Results obtained show that the seismicity was relatively active near the trough axis. These earthquakes may relate to deformation of the subducting Philippine Sea plate. On the other hand, microseismicity in the rupture area of the 1944 Tonankai earthquake was very low. This low-level seismic activity in the co-seismic rupture area of the 1944 Tonankai earthquake likely relates to a single large asperity off Kii Peninsula.

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