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Table 4 Slip tendency (ST) for 1998 Shizukuishi and 2008 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku earthquakes calculated using focal mechanism

From: Stress field in northeastern Japan and its relationship with faults of recent earthquakes

Events

Fault model

Dip direction

Stress field

\(Ts\) best

\(Ts\) error

Shizukuishi earthquake

F-net

East

9-Area A–I

0.884

0.792 < \(Ts\)  < 0.895

West

1997–2011

0.885

0.883 < \(Ts\)  < 0.885

East

9–Area A–II

0.697

0.576 < \(Ts\)  < 0.752

West

2011–2019

0.839

0.589 < \(Ts\)  < 0.980

East

9–Area A–All

0.744

0.585 < \(Ts\)  < 0.791

West

1997–2019

0.891

0.572 < \(Ts\)  < 0.998

East

9–Area B–I

0.733

0.246 < \(Ts\)  < 0.968

West

1997–2011

0.650

0.375 < \(Ts\)  < 0.770

East

9–Area B–II

2011–2019

0.746

0.692 < \(Ts\)  < 0.772

West

0.774

0.463 < \(Ts\)  < 0.956

East

9–Area B–All

1997–2019

0.724

0.567 < \(Ts\)  < 0.825

West

0.786

0.491 < \(Ts\)  < 0.999

Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku earthquake

F-net

East

10–F–IM–I

1997–2008

(F-net)

0.955

0.949 < \(Ts\)  < 0.963

West

0.704

0.685 < \(Ts\)  < 0.724

East

10–F–IM–II

2008–2011

(F-net)

0.967

0.967 < \(Ts\)  < 0.968

West

0.679

0.678 < \(Ts\)  < 0.686

East

10–F–IM–III

2011–2019

(F-net)

0.813

0.732 < \(Ts\)  < 0.910

West

0.578

0.356 < \(Ts\)  < 0.662

East

10–F + P–IM–I

1997–2008

(F-net and P wave polarity)

0.876

0.784 < \(Ts\)  < 0.982

West

0.660

0.636 < \(Ts\)  < 0.676

East

10–F + P–IM–II

2008–2011

(F-net and P wave polarity)

0.949

0.942 < \(Ts\)  < 0.960

West

0.707

0.704 < \(Ts\)  < 0.710

East

10–F + P–IM–III

2011–2019

(F-net and P wave polarity)

0.865

0.823 < \(Ts\)  < 0.952

West

0.540

0.527 < \(Ts\)  < 0.622

  1. ST value (\(Ts)\) error is calculated using the uncertainty of each stress ratio. Bold numbers indicate ST best values of \(Ts>0.7\). The number and letter codes in the stress field correspond to the subareas identified in Fig. 5