Central Japan – Boso Triple Junction
Collaboration with Univ. Tokyo – ERI

(A) Long-term (tectonic) deformation associated with subduction.
Pacific-Philippine Sea plates slab-slab collision beneath Kanto.
(B) Short-term (postseismic) affects of Tohoku M9 earthquake on Kanto region

Pacific – Philippine Sea plate slab-slab interaction within Kanto – Boso triple junction region.

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NSF Geophysics: Reorganization of stresses beneath greater Tokyo after the 2011 Tohoku-Oki M9 earthquake. (USC-Purdue-ERI)

  • Freed, A., A. Hashima, T. Becker, D. Okaya, H. Sato, and T. Nishimura, submitted, Resolving layered subduction zone rheology and afterslip from postseismic displacements following the 2011 Tohoku, Japan Earthquake, Earth Planet Sci Letts.
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