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Volume 60 Supplement 10

Special Issue: Special Section for the 2007 Noto Hanto Earthquake (2)

Aftershock observation of the Noto Hanto earthquake in 2007 using ocean bottom seismometers

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Abstract

The Noto Hanto earthquake in 2007 (Mj 6.9) occurred on March 25, 2007 near the west coast of the Noto peninsula, Honshu, Japan. To study the aftershock activity under the sea, we deployed pop-up type ocean bottom seismometers (OBSs) from April 5 to May 8, 2007. We combined data from ten ocean bottom and four onshore seismic stations located around the rupture area of the earthquake and determined the preliminary distribution of the aftershocks. Most of the offshore aftershocks are located in a depth range between 2 and 10 km, and no earthquakes are observed in the lower crust. Hypocenters of deep events occurring at depths greater than 5 km are confined to an area northeastward from the largest aftershock in offshore region. Most of the aftershocks aligned along a high angle and southeast dipping plane, which is consistent with the geometry of the active faults revealed by previous seismic reflection surveys.

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  1. Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0032, Japan

    Tomoaki Yamada, Kimihiro Mochizuki, Masanao Shinohara, Toshihiko Kanazawa, Asako Kuwano, Kazuo Nakahigashi, Takeo Yagi, Naoto Takeda & Shinichi Hashimoto

  2. Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan

    Ryota Hino

  3. Institute of Seismology and Volcanology, Kyushu University, Shimabara, 855-0843, Japan

    Kenji Uehira

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Yamada, T., Mochizuki, K., Shinohara, M. et al. Aftershock observation of the Noto Hanto earthquake in 2007 using ocean bottom seismometers. Earth Planet Sp 60, 1005–1010 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03352860

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