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4. Seismology

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  1. The Yufutsu Plain, a sedimentary basin surrounded by mountains, is located in the southern part of the Ishikari–Yufutsu Lowlands, Hokkaido, Japan. The Hidaka arc–arc collision zone, located in the eastern part...

    Authors: Naofumi Nakagawa, Nobuo Takai and Michiko Shigefuji
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2023 75:42
  2. The study used data acquired by the ESG6 Blind Prediction Step BP1 Working Group for purposes of facilitating a comparison of interpretation methods for obtaining shear-wave velocity profiles (Vs) from array obse...

    Authors: Michael Asten, Aysegul Askan and Shaghayegh Karimzadeh
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2023 75:40
  3. We participated in the blind prediction exercise organized by the committee of the blind prediction experiment during the 6th International Symposium on Effects of Surface Geology on Seismic Motion (CBP-ESG6)....

    Authors: Fumiaki Nagashima, Hiroshi Kawase, Kenichi Nakano and Eri Ito
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2023 75:35
  4. Shikoku island, southwestern Japan lies in the western Nankai Trough and showcases along-strike segmentation of slow earthquake behavior. Whether the spatial variation of tremor behavior reflects the regional ...

    Authors: Kate Huihsuan Chen, Hao-Yu Chiu, Kazushige Obara and Yi-Hung Liu
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2023 75:32
  5. We present our pathway through participation in the blind Kumamoto exercise, particularly the Step 1 of site characterization. The combination of passive and active seismic imaging techniques is used to image ...

    Authors: E. Diego Mercerat and T. Dylan Mikesell
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2023 75:31
  6. The elastodynamic half-space Green’s function has been the subject of research for more than a century since the Lamb’s classical solution. Here, we revisit the problem and present a new closed analytical solu...

    Authors: Francisco J. Sánchez-Sesma, Francisco Luzón, Antonio García-Jerez, Mathieu Perton, Mario A. Sáenz-Castillo and César A. Sierra-Álvarez
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2023 75:29
  7. The 2022 eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano excited an atmospheric Lamb wave, which induced a fast-traveling tsunami. This tsunami was driven by the pressure-forced wave traveling at the speed o...

    Authors: Tung-Cheng Ho, Nobuhito Mori and Masumi Yamada
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2023 75:25
  8. To clarify the characteristics of high-frequency (> 1 Hz) S and S-coda waves at ocean-bottom seismometers (OBSs), we analyzed seismograms observed at permanent OBSs and inland broadband seismometers around the Ki...

    Authors: Shunsuke Takemura, Kentaro Emoto and Lina Yamaya
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2023 75:20
  9. The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes caused severe damage centering on the Mashiki residential area. The velocity waveforms at station KMMH16 in Mashiki, during the M7.3 mainshock, show large pulses. We found that sever...

    Authors: Anatoly Petukhin, Hiroshi Kawase, Fumiaki Nagashima and Eri Ito
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2023 75:16
  10. In subduction zones, slip deficit monitoring along the plate interface is important for understanding the seismogenesis of megathrust earthquakes. In the last two decades, aseismic slip transients, such as slo...

    Authors: Suguru Yabe, Tadafumi Ochi, Norio Matsumoto, Satoshi Itaba, Yuichi Kitagawa and Takanori Matsuzawa
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2023 75:13
  11. Our recent paper (Nishiyama et al. in Earth Planets Space 73:126, 2021) suggested that the sealing time of a crack-seal event recorded in quartz-filled shear veins in the Makimine mélange may temporally increa...

    Authors: Naoki Nishiyama
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2023 75:3

    The original article was published in Earth, Planets and Space 2023 75:2

  12. A recent paper by Nishiyama et al. (Earth, Planets, and Space 73:126) examined syntectonic quartz veins to constrain temporal variations in the recurrence intervals between slow slip and tremor events. The aut...

    Authors: Randolph T. Williams
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2023 75:2

    The original article was published in Earth, Planets and Space 2021 73:126

    The Comment to this article has been published in Earth, Planets and Space 2023 75:3

  13. S-net is a large-scale ocean bottom (OB) network in the Japan Trench area, consisting of inline-type 150 observatories equipped with seismometers and pressure gauges. Among them, 41 observatories have been bur...

    Authors: Yadab P. Dhakal, Takashi Kunugi, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Atsushi Wakai, Shin Aoi and Azusa Nishizawa
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2023 75:1
  14. The Izu–Bonin–Mariana Subduction System (IBM) is one of the longest subduction zones in the world with no instrumental history of shallow focus, great earthquakes (Mw > 8). Over the last 50 years, researchers ...

    Authors: Walter Szeliga, Rachelle Reisinger and Breanyn MacInnes
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:193
  15. We propose a statistical analysis method to identify common features of seismic activity that are indistinguishable from most other seismicity, and to find anomalous activity that differs from these common fea...

    Authors: Kohei Nagata, Koji Tamaribuchi, Fuyuki Hirose and Akemi Noda
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:179
  16. We conducted seismic tomography for entire Japanese Islands including the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean using arrival times from reflection survey as well as the routine seismic network. We successfully i...

    Authors: Makoto Matsubara, Tatsuya Ishiyama, Tetsuo No, Kenji Uehira, Masashi Mochizuki, Toshihiko Kanazawa, Narumi Takahashi and Shin’ichiro Kamiya
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:171
  17. The North Anatolian Fault Zone is a dextral system operating between the Eurasian and Anatolian plates in northern Turkey. Across the Marmara Sea south of İstanbul, it deforms at ~18 mm/year slip rate, where t...

    Authors: Murat Şahin, Cenk Yaltırak, Fatih Bulut and Aslı Garagon
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:167
  18. We conducted centroid moment tensor (CMT) inversion for small-to-moderate aftershocks in the off Ibaraki region of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake. In this study, we used high-frequency (0....

    Authors: Lina Yamaya, Kimihiro Mochizuki, Takeshi Akuhara, Shunsuke Takemura, Masanao Shinohara and Tomoaki Yamada
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:164

    The Correction to this article has been published in Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:184

  19. Meteotsunamis (forced waves) triggered by atmospheric disturbances of Lamb waves due to the 2022 Hunga–Tonga volcanic eruption have been observed in coastal areas surrounding the Pacific Ocean. However, the sp...

    Authors: Takashi Tonegawa and Yoshio Fukao
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:159
  20. Earthquake and tsunami predictions comprise huge uncertainties, thus necessitating probabilistic assessments for the design of defense facilities and urban planning. In recent years, computer development has a...

    Authors: Toshitaka Baba, Masato Kamiya, Naoki Tanaka, Yusuke Sumida, Ryoichi Yamanaka, Kojiro Watanabe and Hiroyuki Fujiwara
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:156
  21. New heat flow data corrected for climate change over Northeastern Japan were obtained using the temperature profile of the borehole of the High Sensitivity Seismograph Network (Hi-net). The obtained spatial di...

    Authors: Takumi Matsumoto, Ryuji Yamada and Satoshi Iizuka
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:155
  22. Tidal gravimeters can detect intermediate-period surface waves with high accuracy. Three gravimetric stations with estimated transfer functions and co-located with seismic stations were selected: two in Belgiu...

    Authors: Kamila Karkowska and Monika Wilde-Piórko
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:150
  23. Constructing geotechnical information database to collect information such as geophysical survey results and borehole data and then sharing it among researchers and engineers will be useful for developing rese...

    Authors: Isamu Nishimura, Tatsuya Noguchi and Takao Kagawa
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:148
  24. The mineral veins formed by filling tensile cracks record the accumulation of past hydraulic activities such as fluid migration in the damage zones of a fault. The purpose of this study is to estimate the flui...

    Authors: Hinako Hosono, Takato Takemura, Daisuke Asahina and Makoto Otsubo
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:141
  25. A series of reclamation works that took place during the twentieth century, almost completely destroyed the dune system that characterized the eastern part of the Grado-Marano perilagoonal area (NE Italy). Bec...

    Authors: Giancarlo Dal Moro and Josef Stemberk
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:140
  26. On 26 May 1983 the Nihonkai-Chubu earthquake occurred off the western coast of Noshiro City, Akita Prefecture, Japan. The tsunami associated with this earthquake caused widespread damage to the northeastern co...

    Authors: Takashi Chiba and Yuichi Nishimura
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:133
  27. Great earthquakes have occurred repeatedly along the Nankai Trough, but only for recent events are details known, such as rupture areas and time lags between paired events. It is meaningful for disaster preven...

    Authors: Fuyuki Hirose, Kenji Maeda, Kenichi Fujita and Akio Kobayashi
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:131
  28. Emergency responses during a massive tsunami disaster require information on the flow depth of land for rescue operations. This study aims to predict tsunami flow depth distribution in real time using regressi...

    Authors: Masato Kamiya, Yasuhiko Igarashi, Masato Okada and Toshitaka Baba
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:127
  29. We conducted temporary seismic observations at the Hitachi-Kashiwa Soccer Stadium on a J. LEAGUE game day to obtain unique seismic records due to the collective action (i.e., jumping) of supporters, which were...

    Authors: Suguru Yabe, Kiwamu Nishida and Shinichi Sakai
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:123
  30. As interference waves in deep reflection data processing, surface waves are often suppressed as noise, but surface waves carry considerable underground media information, including structural information and t...

    Authors: Guangwen Wang, Zhanwu Lu, Wenhui Li, Shuai Xue, Haiyan Wang, Yongzhi Cheng, Si Chen and Wei Cai
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:122
  31. Investigation of the characteristic behavior of successive earthquakes that closely occur in space and time is important to understand the generation mechanism of earthquakes and useful to assess a triggered e...

    Authors: Thystere Matondo Bantidi and Takeshi Nishimura
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:117
  32. A hierarchical space–time version of the epidemic-type aftershock sequence (HIST–ETAS) model was constructed for an optimally adapted fit to diverse seismicity features characterized by anisotropic clustering ...

    Authors: Yosihiko Ogata
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:110
  33. Ocean-bottom pressure gauges of wide and dense ocean-bottom observation networks around Japan, S-net and DONET, observed ocean waves caused by the Tonga eruption that started at approximately 13:00 JST (UTC + ...

    Authors: Hisahiko Kubo, Tatsuya Kubota, Wataru Suzuki, Shin Aoi, Osamu Sandanbata, Naotaka Chikasada and Hideki Ueda
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:104
  34. Earth’s crust responds to perturbations from various environmental factors. To evaluate this response, seismic velocity changes offer an indirect diagnostic, especially where velocity can be monitored on an on...

    Authors: Rezkia Dewi Andajani, Takeshi Tsuji, Roel Snieder and Tatsunori Ikeda
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:97
  35. Research interest in the Kinki region, southwestern Japan, has been aroused by the frequent occurrence of microearthquake activity that do not always coincide with documented active fault locations. Previous s...

    Authors: Bokani Nthaba, Tatsunori Ikeda, Hiro Nimiya, Takeshi Tsuji and Yoshihisa Iio
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:96
  36. The Hakodate Plain in the southern part of the Oshima Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan, is a sedimentary basin surrounded by mountains. The vertical displacements caused by active faults along the western margin of ...

    Authors: Kimiyuki Asano, Tomotaka Iwata, Kunikazu Yoshida, Naoto Inoue, Kazuhiro Somei, Ken Miyakoshi and Michihiro Ohori
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:94
  37. Revealing subsurface structures is a fundamental task in geophysical and geological studies. Logging data are usually acquired through drilling projects, which constrain the subsurface structure, and together ...

    Authors: Suguru Yabe, Yohei Hamada, Rina Fukuchi, Shunichi Nomura, Norio Shigematsu, Tsutomu Kiguchi and Kenta Ueki
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:93
  38. The S-wave velocity (Vs) structure of sediments and the uppermost crust in the landward slope of a subduction zone are important for determining the dynamics of the overriding plate. Although distributed acoustic...

    Authors: Shun Fukushima, Masanao Shinohara, Kiwamu Nishida, Akiko Takeo, Tomoaki Yamada and Kiyoshi Yomogida
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:92
  39. This study summarizes the findings of an attitude survey focused on people’s perceptions of seismic hazard maps, which illustrate the risk of an earthquake in each location throughout Japan. These seismic haza...

    Authors: Sayaka Saito, Shinya Yasumoto and Naoya Sekiya
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2022 74:82

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