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From: Geological structures controlled the rupture process of the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake in the Northeast Japan Arc

Fig. 1

Tectonic configuration in and around the Japan Arc generated since the Japan Sea opening to the present (adapted from Baba (2017)). The alphabetical symbols for large transcurrent faults are as follows: Offshore Hidaka tectonic line (Faults B, A, C, and F), Offshore Sanriku tectonic line (Fault G), Hizume-Kesennuma fault (Fault H), Honjo-Sendai tectonic line (Fault I), Miomote-Tanakura tectonic line (Faults N and T), Kashiwazaki-Choshi tectonic line (Fault P), Itoigawa-Shizuoka tectonic line (Fault R), and Tsushima-Goto tectonic line (Fault S)

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