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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 42, Issue 11, Pages 4318-4325Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063959
Keywords
very low frequency earthquake; 2011 Tohoku earthquake; off the Pacific coast of Tohoku; slow earthquake
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We found very low frequency earthquakes (VLFEs) at a shallow subduction zone close to the Japan Trench off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, Japan. Centroid moment tensor solutions of VLFEs showed reverse fault mechanisms with a compression axis in the east-west direction. A cross-correlation analysis of seismograms with template events between 2005 and 2013 revealed three major VLFE clusters and their temporal evolution. A VLFE cluster in the central off-Tohoku region located in the large slip area of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake was detectable only before the Tohoku earthquake. However, VLFEs in the northern and southern off-Tohoku regions at the rim of the large slip area were activated after the Tohoku earthquake. The change in the activity may reflect the stress redistribution by the coseismic and/or afterslip processes of the Tohoku earthquake.
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