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Transient crustal deformation in Tokai region, central Japan, until May 2004
- Shinzaburo Ozawa12Email author,
- Makoto Murakami12,
- Masaru Kaidzu12 and
- Yuki Hatanaka12
Earth, Planets and Space201457:BF03351870
https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03351870
© The Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (SGEPSS); The Seismological Society of Japan; The Volcanological Society of Japan; The Geodetic Society of Japan; The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences. 2005
Received: 31 August 2004
Accepted: 7 August 2005
Published: 20 June 2014
Abstract
An analysis of Global Positioning System (GPS) data reveals a continuation of the transient crustal deformation that was first reported by Ozawa et al. (2002) in the western Tokai region. Kalman filtering following the time-dependent inversion shows a slow-thrust slip occurring on the plate boundary in the western Tokai region, with its center around Lake Hamana, which is adjacent to the anticipated Tokai earthquake source area. The moment release from the Tokai silent earthquake was observed to be continuous surpassing Mw 7.0 in May 2004, with relative slip increases to the northeast and north of Lake Hamana from 2002. The moment release rate decreased in 2002, and then increased in 2003, reaching the rate observed in 2001.
