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New Perspective of Subduction Zone Earthquake

Edited by: Gaku Kimura, Juichiro Ashi, Masataka Kinoshita, Christie Rowe, David Shelly

The Japanese government (MEXT, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) is supporting a project “new perspective of the great subduction zone earthquake from the super deep drilling” (named KANAME as an abbreviation of Kakenhi for Nankai Megathrust”) from 2009 through 2013.

The aim of the special issue is to outline the achievement of the KANAME project, to bring together some Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) drilling findings and their related research, and to increase understanding of major earthquakes and tsunami at subduction zones.

Publication started: 29 April 2014
Publication finished: 1 August 2015

  1. Enormous earthquakes repeatedly occur in subduction zones, and the slips along megathrusts, in particular those propagating to the toe of the forearc wedge, generate ruinous tsunamis. Quantitative evaluation o...

    Authors: Yohei Hamada, Arito Sakaguchi, Wataru Tanikawa, Asuka Yamaguchi, Jun Kameda and Gaku Kimura
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:39
  2. To investigate the mechanical properties and deformation patterns of megathrusts in subduction zones, we studied damage zone structures of the Nobeoka Thrust, an exhumed megasplay fault in the Kyushu Shimanto ...

    Authors: Mari Hamahashi, Yohei Hamada, Asuka Yamaguchi, Gaku Kimura, Rina Fukuchi, Saneatsu Saito, Jun Kameda, Yujin Kitamura, Koichiro Fujimoto and Yoshitaka Hashimoto
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:30
  3. Borehole breakouts are enlargements and elongation of a borehole in a particular direction, caused by failure of the borehole wall rock due to concentration of stresses around the borehole, and thus, have been...

    Authors: Yasuhiro Yamada and Jun Shibanuma
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:17
  4. We determined the seismic attenuation structure of the Kumano Basin, a forearc basin in the central part of the Nankai subduction zone. Despite its importance for understanding the physical condition of the Ea...

    Authors: Ryota Hino, Takeshi Tsuji, Nathan L Bangs, Yoshinori Sanada, Jin-Oh Park, Roland von Huene, Gregory F Moore, Eiichiro Araki and Masataka Kinoshita
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:7
  5. The 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake (Mw 9.0) produced a fault rupture that extended to the toe of the Japan Trench. The deformation and frictional properties beneath the forearc are keys that can help to elucidate ...

    Authors: Hiroaki Koge, Toshiya Fujiwara, Shuichi Kodaira, Tomoyuki Sasaki, Jun Kameda, Yujin Kitamura, Mari Hamahashi, Rina Fukuchi, Asuka Yamaguchi, Yohei Hamada, Juichiro Ashi and Gaku Kimura
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:153
  6. The Nankai Trough subduction zone in southwest Japan is a typical convergent margin where the Philippine Sea plate subducts in the northwest direction beneath the Eurasian plate, and devastating earthquakes ha...

    Authors: Toru Takeshita, Asuka Yamaguchi and Norio Shigematsu
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:144
  7. Multichannel seismic reflection lines image the subducting Pacific Plate to approximately 75 km seaward of the Japan Trench and document the incoming plate sediment, faults, and deformation front near the 2011...

    Authors: Brian Boston, Gregory F Moore, Yasuyuki Nakamura and Shuichi Kodaira
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:135
  8. We used push corers during manned submersible dives to obtain sediment samples of up to 30 cm from the subseafloor at the Oomine Ridge. The concentrations of B in pore water extracted from the sediment samples...

    Authors: Tomohiro Toki, Ryosaku Higa, Akira Ijiri, Urumu Tsunogai and Juichiro Ashi
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:137
  9. In the Hikurangi subduction zone, situated along the east coast of the North Island, New Zealand, where the old oceanic Pacific Plate is subducting beneath the Australian Plate, several slow slip events and te...

    Authors: Suguru Yabe, Satoshi Ide and Shoichi Yoshioka
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:142
  10. Tectonic mélange zones within ancient accretionary complexes include various styles of strain accommodation along subduction interfaces from shallow to deep. The ductile-brittle transition at shallower portion...

    Authors: Yoshitaka Hashimoto and Natsuko Yamano
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:141
  11. Triaxial shear tests on mudstone samples from the Shimanto Belt and the Boso accretionary complexes (SW Japan and central Japan) were carried out. Pre-exhumation burial depths in the two paleo-accretionary pri...

    Authors: Kai Schumann, Jan H Behrmann, Michael Stipp, Yuzuru Yamamoto, Yujin Kitamura and Christof Lempp
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:129
  12. Heat flow measurements were conducted at four sites in the Nankai accretionary prism southeast of the Kii Peninsula, around the area where the megasplay fault reaches the surface, in conjunction with long-term...

    Authors: Makoto Yamano, Yoshifumi Kawada and Hideki Hamamoto
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:126
  13. To validate the abundance of scenarios of large earthquakes in the Nankai Trough, we examined the effects of both lateral and vertical expansions of the source areas on maximum tsunami heights along the Pacifi...

    Authors: Mamoru Hyodo, Takane Hori, Kazuto Ando and Toshitaka Baba
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:123
  14. Seismic image and velocity models were obtained from a newly conducted seismic survey around the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST) drill site in the Japan Tren...

    Authors: Yasuyuki Nakamura, Shuichi Kodaira, Becky J Cook, Tamara Jeppson, Takafumi Kasaya, Yojiro Yamamoto, Yoshitaka Hashimoto, Mika Yamaguchi, Koichiro Obana and Gou Fujie
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:121
  15. Illite crystallinity (IC), the full width at half maximum of the illite (001) peak in clay-fraction X-ray diffraction (XRD), is a common geothermometer widely applied to various tectonic settings. Paleotempera...

    Authors: Rina Fukuchi, Koichiro Fujimoto, Jun Kameda, Mari Hamahashi, Asuka Yamaguchi, Gaku Kimura, Yohei Hamada, Yoshitaka Hashimoto, Yujin Kitamura and Saneatsu Saito
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:116
  16. In 2010, the first long-term borehole monitoring system was deployed at approximately 900 m below the sea floor (mbsf) and was assumed to be situated above the updip limit of the seismogenic zone in the Nankai...

    Authors: Takamitsu Sugihara, Masataka Kinoshita, Eichiro Araki, Toshinori Kimura, Masanori Kyo, Yasuhiro Namba, Yukari Kido, Yoshinori Sanada and Moe Kyaw Thu
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:107
  17. We measured fluid transport properties at an effective pressure of 40 MPa in core samples of sediments and fault rocks collected by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) NanTroSEIZE drilling project Exp...

    Authors: Wataru Tanikawa, Hideki Mukoyoshi, Weiren Lin, Takehiro Hirose and Akito Tsutsumi
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:90
  18. High-resolution structure analyses using electron beam techniques have been performed for the investigation of subgrain boundaries (SGBs) in deformed orthopyroxene (Opx) in mylonite from Hidaka Metamorphic Bel...

    Authors: Toshihiro Kogure, Hugues Raimbourg, Akihito Kumamoto, Eiko Fujii and Yuichi Ikuhara
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:84
  19. Waveform cross-correlation coefficients (CCs) have often been used to investigate clustering of earthquakes. Such techniques, however, have rarely been applied to waveform data recorded by ocean-bottom seismom...

    Authors: Takeshi Akuhara and Kimihiro Mochizuki
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:80
  20. We conducted triaxial friction experiments on the shallow Nankai Trough accretionary sediments at confining pressures, pore water pressures, temperatures close to their in situ conditions, and axial displacement ...

    Authors: Miki Takahashi, Shuhei Azuma, Hidenori Ito, Kyuichi Kanagawa and Atsuyuki Inoue
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:75
  21. We examined the frictional properties of sediments on the Cocos plate offshore the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, and explored variations in the intrinsic frictional properties of the sediment inputs to the Costa ...

    Authors: Yuka Namiki, Akito Tsutsumi, Kohtaro Ujiie and Jun Kameda
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:72
  22. The 2011 Tohoku earthquake (Mw 9.0) produced a very large slip on the shallow part of a megathrust fault that resulted in destructive tsunamis. Although multiple causes of such large slip at shallow depths are...

    Authors: Michiyo Sawai, Takehiro Hirose and Jun Kameda
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:65
  23. Ultrafine-grained black fault rocks (BFRs) in the Pasagshak Point Thrust of the Kodiak accretionary complex are examples of fault rocks that have recorded seismicity along an ancient subduction plate boundary....

    Authors: Asuka Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Yasuhiro Kato, Tatsuo Nozaki, Francesca Meneghini, Christie D Rowe, James Casey Moore, Akito Tsutsumi and Gaku Kimura
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:58
  24. Seismic shaking is a major trigger for sediment redistribution in subduction zones, and clouds of dilute suspended sediment have been reported in association with large earthquakes. Dive observations in a basi...

    Authors: Juichiro Ashi, Ritsuko Sawada, Akiko Omura and Ken Ikehara
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:51
  25. We report thermal conductivities, thermal diffusivities, and volumetric heat capacities determined by a transient plane heat source method for four whole-round core samples obtained by the Japan Trench Fast Dr...

    Authors: Weiren Lin, Patrick M Fulton, Robert N Harris, Osamu Tadai, Osamu Matsubayashi, Wataru Tanikawa and Masataka Kinoshita
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:48
  26. We carried out geochemical and mineralogical analyses on fault-zone rocks from the Anko section of the Median Tectonic Line in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, to investigate coseismic physicochemical processes in th...

    Authors: Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Tetsuro Hirono, Noriko Matsuta, Kazuro Kawamoto, Koichiro Fujimoto, Jun Kameda, Yoshiro Nishio, Yuka Maekawa and Go Honda
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:36
  27. To estimate the slip parameters and understand the fault lubrication mechanism during the 1999 Taiwan Chi-Chi earthquake, we applied vitrinite reflectance geothermometry to samples retrieved from the Chelungpu...

    Authors: Yuka Maekawa, Tetsuro Hirono, Hikaru Yabuta, Hideki Mukoyoshi, Manami Kitamura, Minoru Ikehara, Wataru Tanikawa and Tsuyoshi Ishikawa
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:28
  28. We present a quantitative examination of the liberation and subsequent deposition of silica at the subduction zone plate interface in the Mugi mélange, an exhumed accretionary complex in the Shimanto Belt of s...

    Authors: Jun Kameda, Kuniyo Kawabata, Yohei Hamada, Asuka Yamaguchi and Gaku Kimura
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:13