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From: The 2016 Mw 5.9 earthquake off the southeastern coast of Mie Prefecture as an indicator of preparatory processes of the next Nankai Trough megathrust earthquake

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Past seismic activities in the study area. a Regional location map (inset) and seismic activity along the Nankai Trough. Orange star represents the epicenter location of the 2016 off-Mie earthquake; results from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the Global CMT Project (GCMT) are shown together with mechanism symbols. Epicenters of earthquakes larger than M6 before and after 1976 are represented by diamonds and circles, respectively, from the JMA unified earthquake catalogue. Blue and red contours represent the slip distributions of the 1944 Tonankai and 1946 Nankai earthquakes, respectively (Ichinose et al. 2003; Murotani et al. 2015). Gray triangles represent locations of DONET stations. The ellipsoid labeled with “A” designates the region of interplate seismic activity reported by Akuhara and Mochizuki (2014). Orange arrows represent the subduction direction of the Philippine Sea plate. Plate name abbreviations are as follows: AM, Amur; OK, Okhotsk; PA, Pacific; PS, Philippine Sea. b Occurrence date of earthquakes plotted against their source longitude. Symbols are the same as in a

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