Table 1 Important progress in source studies of great earthquakes reported in this review

Recent great earthquakes

2004 Sumatra–Andaman

9.1

Hirata et al. (2006)

Tanioka et al. (2006)

Fujii and Satake (2007)

Lorito et al. (2010)

Gusman et al. (2012a)

Fujii et al. (2021)

satellite data*, rupture velocity#

satellite data*, rupture velocity#

satellite data*, rupture velocity#

satellite data*, GPS data*, slip angle#, rupture velocity#

deposit (thickness data)*$

far-field (Watada et al. 2014)$

2007 Bengkulu

8.5

Gusman et al. (2010)

InSAR data*, slip angle#

2010 Mentawai tsunami

7.9

Satake, et al. (2013b)

Hill et al. (2012)

Ratnasari et al. (2020)

detail survey*

layered crustal structure$

depth-dependent rigidity$

2011 Tohoku-oki

9.0

Satake et al. (2013a)

Gusman et al. (2012b)

Yokota et al. (2011)

Saito et al. (2011)

Yamazaki et al. (2013)

Watada et al. (2014)

Baba et al. (2017)

Ichihara et al. (2013)

Minami et al. (2017)

Kakinami et al. (2012)

Jaffe et al. (2012)

Gusman et al. (2018)

Mitra et al. (2020)

temporal evolution slip$

deformation of sediments near the trench$

seismic wave + geodetic + tsunami$

dispersive wave equations$

dispersive wave equations$

dispersion effects with the self-gravitating elastic earth$

dispersion effects with the self-gravitating elastic earth

electro-magnetometer data*$

electro-magnetometer data*$

TEC data from GPS data*$

sedimental data by tsunami*$

sedimental data by tsunami*$

sedimental data by tsunami*$

2005 Nias (Sumatra)

8.6

Fujii et al. (2020)

far-field (Watada et al. 2014)$

2010 Maule (Chile)

8.8

Yoshimoto et al. (2016)

far-field (Watada et al. 2014)$

2014 Iquique (Chile)

8.0

Gusman et al. (2015)

far-field (Watada et al. 2014)$

2015 Illapel (Chile)

8.4

Heidarzadeh et al. (2015)

far-field (Watada et al. 2014)$

2020 Shumagin (Alaska)

7.8

Mulia et al. (2022)

far-field (Watada et al. 2014)$

2016 Fukushima

7.1

Kubota et al. (2021)

Mizutani and Yomogida (2021)

S-net data*, stress drop#$

S-net data*, back-projection imaging$

Historical

1960 Chile

9.3–9.4

Ho et al. (2019)

far-field (Watada et al. 2014)$

Great Earthquakes

1854 Ansei Tokai

8.5

Kusumoto et al. 2020)

old tide gauges*

far-field (Watada et al. 2014)$

1707 Nankai earthquake

8.7

Furumura et al. (2011)

historical document*, tsunami deposit sites*

1906 Colombia-Ecuador

8.7

Yamanaka and Tanioka (2021)

old tide gauges*

dispersive wave equations$

1923 Kanto

8.0

Nakadai et al. (2023)

old tide gauges*, geodetic data document*, old maps*

1703 Genroku Kanto

 > 8.3

Yanagisawa and Goto (2017)

historical document*, tsunami deposit sites*

1677 Enpo (Boso)

8.3–8.6

Yanagisawa et al. (2016)

historical document*,

tsunami deposit sites*

1611 Keicho Sanriku

8.5

Yamanaka and Tanioka (2022)

historical document*, resonance of the bay$, dispersive wave$

Pre-Historical Earthquakes

1700 Cascadia

8.7–9.2

Atwater and Yamaguchi (1991)

Goldfinger et al. (2003)

Satake et al. (1996)

Satake et al. (2003)

tsunami deposit sites*

tree ring dating*

turbidites*

historical documents (Japan)*

geological evidence (USA)*

historical documents (Japan)*

Seventeenth century Hokkaido

8.8

Nanayama et al. (2003)

Satake et al. (2008)

Ioki and Tanioka (2016)

Sawai et al. (2004)

tsunami deposit sites*

tsunami deposit sites*

tsunami deposit sites*

diatom distribution in sediment*#$

869 Jogan (Tohoku)

8.5–8.6

Namegaya et al. (2010)

Sawai et al. (2012)

Sugawara et al. (2013)

Namegaya and Satake (2014)

tsunami deposit sites*

tsunami deposit sites*

tsunami deposit sites*

tsunami deposit sites*

flow depth (at deposit limits)#$

1797 Sumatra

-

Natawidjaja et al. (2006)

Microatolls (annual coral bands)*#$

1833 Sumatra

-

Natawidjaja et al. (2006)

Microatolls (annual coral bands)*#$

1771 Yaeyama

8.0

Nakamura (2009)

Okamura et al. (2018)

Goto et al. (2010b)

Goto (2017)

historical document*,

tsunami deposit sites*

prism collapse#, seismic profiles*

large coral boulders*$

large boulders (precise dating)*#$