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Yagi & Kikuchi 2003
Yagi, Y. and Kikuchi, M. (2003). Partitioning between seismogenic and aseismic slip as highlighted from slow slip events in Hyuga-nada, Japan. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2002GL015664. issn: 0094-8276.

We present a numerical method to analyze the GPS data, and examine slow fault-slips in Hyuga-nada, a region in western Japan where the Philippine Sea plate subducts under the Eurasian plate and earthquakes of Magnitude 7 class are frequent. We found that, after two large earthquakes in 1996, a slow fault-slip expanded from the source area to the north and then triggered another slow event with a characteristic source duration of about one year. The aseismic slip has increasingly highlighted a particular site where little slow fault-slip takes place but where the subducting plate drags the overriding plate. It is noteworthy that the highlighted area is just the site of a past large earthquake. We propose that this area is a possible site for a future large earthquake.

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Keywords
Seismology, Earthquake dynamics and mechanics, Seismology, Seismic hazard assessment and prediction, Seismology, Seismicity and seismotectonics
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Geophysical Research Letters
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