Fig. 1From: Geographical distribution of shear wave anisotropy within marine sediments in the northwestern PacificLocations of the examined ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) sites. a The six linear arrays along A–A′, B–B′, C–C′, D–D′, E–E′, and F–F′ consisting of short-period (4.5 Hz) OBSs (yellow triangles). The ellipse shows an area of the abyssal plain in the region where OBSs were deployed. b Map showing the northwestern Pacific with contours (white lines) of the plate age. The yellow rectangle corresponds to the area shown in Fig. 1aBack to article page