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Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:44
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Progress in modeling the Tohoku-oki megathrust earthquake cycle and associated crustal deformation processes
This paper summarizes the results of 10 years of research on models of the megathrust earthquake cycles and crustal deformation associated with the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake. Several earthquake cycle models h...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:43 -
An introductory review of the thermal structure of subduction zones: I—motivation and selected examples
The thermal structure of subduction zones is fundamental to our understanding of physical and chemical processes that occur at active convergent plate margins. These include magma generation and related arc vo...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:42 -
Effect of grain size on amorphization mechanism and kinetics of bridgmanite in shocked meteorites
Bridgmanite formation and amorphization in shocked meteorites constrain the pressure and temperature conditions during planetary impact. However, the effect of the bridgmanite grain size on its amorphization k...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:41 -
Geological history of the land area between Okinawa Jima and Miyako Jima of the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and its phylogeographical significance for the terrestrial organisms of these and adjacent islands
The modern and Late Pleistocene terrestrial fauna of Miyako Jima and adjacent islands (the Miyako Islands) in the southern Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan, includes some endemic taxa or genetically unique p...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:40 -
Si- versus Mg-metasomatism at the crust–mantle interface: insights from experiments, natural observations and geochemical modeling
The slab–mantle interface in subduction zones is one of the geological boundaries with the most significant chemical potential gradients, which leads to fluid-mediated metasomatic reactions and chemical transp...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:39 -
Possible link between temperatures in the seashore and open ocean waters of Peru identified by using new seashore water data
The linkage between environmental conditions in the coastal ocean and the open sea varies greatly by region. It is important to clarify, on an area-by-area basis, what coastal monitoring information reveals ab...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:38 -
Geophysical investigation of the Mado Megamullion oceanic core complex: implications for the end of back-arc spreading
Detachment faulting is one of the main styles of seafloor spreading at slow to intermediate mid-ocean ridges. However, we have limited insight into its role in back-arc basin formation. We surveyed a remnant b...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:37 -
A macroscopic analysis of the demographic impacts of flood inundation in Thailand (2005–2019)
In Thailand, floods are occurring more frequently due to climate change, and recent economic development and population growth may have altered the way in which people interact with floods, including migration...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:36 -
Complex evolution of the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake revealed by teleseismic body waves
The 2016 Kaikoura earthquake, New Zealand, ruptured more than a dozen faults, making it difficult to prescribe a model fault for analyzing the event by inversion. To model this earthquake from teleseismic reco...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:35 -
Recurrence intervals for M > 7 Miyagi-ken-Oki earthquakes during an M ~ 9 earthquake cycle
The 2011 Tohoku-Oki great earthquake increased the difficulty of evaluating the long-term probability of seismic activity along the Japan Trench because of the unknown impact of the unprecedentedly large slip....
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:34 -
Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite 2 (GOSAT-2): mission overview
The Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite 2 (GOSAT-2) was launched in October 2018 as a successor to GOSAT (launched in 2009), the first satellite to specialize in greenhouse gas observations. Compared to the G...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:33 -
Changes in intensity and tracks of tropical cyclones crossing the central and southern Philippines from 1979 to 2020: an observational study
Observational studies on the characteristics of tropical cyclones (TCs) crossing Mindanao and Visayas Islands, in the southern and central Philippines, respectively, remain limited. To address this research ga...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:32 -
Aftershocks following the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake driven by both stress transfer and afterslip
Aftershocks are a fundamental characteristic of seismicity, and their generation mechanism is mainly characterized by two physical models, stress transfer from large earthquakes and afterslip-induced stress lo...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:31 -
Formation of lower fast-spread oceanic crust: a structural and geochemical study of troctolites in the Hess Deep Rift (East Pacific Rise)
Troctolites were recovered during Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 345 at the Hess Deep Rift, next to fast-spreading East Pacific Rise. These troctolites are divided into three groups based on text...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:30 -
High precision measurement of trace F and Cl in olivine by electron probe microanalysis
Fluorine (F) and chlorine (Cl) are important volatiles in olivine and its high-pressure polymorphs, which would significantly affect olivine phase transition, melting temperature, and physical property of the ...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:29 -
Relationship between strain accumulation and release associated with recent slow slip events on the Japanese Islands
In this study, we investigated the relationship between the strain accumulation before a slow slip event (SSE) and the strain release during the SSE for three recent SSEs along the Suruga Trough, Sagami Trough...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:28 -
Ground motion hazard of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) routes in Pakistan
Pakistan has seen a burst of infrastructure development recently due to the increased connection between Asia and East Europe. The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor is a project between China and Pakistan aimed...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:27 -
Progress and application of the synthesis of trans-oceanic tsunamis
Abundant high-quality distant tsunami records from the 2010 Maule (Chile) and 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquakes have revealed two distinctive features compared to long-wave tsunami simulations. The records show that...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:26 -
Basin-wide erosion and segmentation of the Plio-Pleistocene forearc basin in central Japan revealed by tephro- and biostratigraphy
The basement of the Tokyo metropolitan area consists of the Miocene–Pleistocene forearc basin fills that are well exposed around Tokyo Bay, especially on the Miura and Boso peninsulas. The forearc basin fills ...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:25 -
Abrupt water temperature increases near seafloor during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake
We investigated temperature records associated with seafloor pressure observations at eight stations that experienced the 2011 Mw 9 Tohoku earthquake near its epicenter. The temperature data were based on the tem...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:24 -
Sedimentary diversity of the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami deposits on the Sendai coastal plain and the northern coast of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
This paper documents the sedimentary characteristics of the widespread deposits associated with the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami on the lowlands along the Pacific coast of the Sendai and Fukushima regions, northern...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:23 -
Correction: Submarine paleoseismology in the Japan Trench of northeastern Japan: turbidite stratigraphy and sedimentology using paleomagnetic and rock magnetic analyses
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:22 -
Simulated distributions of pumice rafts in Japan following eruptions at volcanic islands and submarine volcanoes
Voluminous pumice rafts produced by the 2021 phreatomagmatic eruption of Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba, a submarine volcano located in the Izu-Bonin Islands, reached many Japanese ports and islands, damaging fisheries an...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:21 -
Cluster-based foreshock discrimination model with flexible time horizon and mainshock magnitudes
Foreshock detection before mainshock occurrence is an important challenge limiting the short-term forecasts of large earthquakes. Various models for predicting mainshocks based on discrimination of foreshocks ...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:20 -
Update of global maps of Alisov’s climate classification
Proposed in 1954, Alisov’s climate classification (CC) focuses on climatic changes observed in January–July in large-scale air mass zones and their fronts. Herein, data clustering by machine learning was appli...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:19 -
Accessing the energy-limited and sparsely populated deep biosphere: achievements and ongoing challenges of available technologies
Microbes in marine sediments detected and counted by direct observation of membrane-filtered sediment samples stained with acridine orange. This technique can still be applied to high-biomass (> 105 cells/cm3) s...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:18 -
Development of particle swarm clustered optimization method for applications in applied sciences
An original particle swarm clustered optimization (PSCO) method has been developed for the implementations in applied sciences. The developed PSCO does not trap in local solutions in contrary to corresponding ...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:17 -
Submarine paleoseismology in the Japan Trench of northeastern Japan: turbidite stratigraphy and sedimentology using paleomagnetic and rock magnetic analyses
Previous studies of sediments recovered from the Japan Trench between 37° 25′ N and 38° 30′ N document distinctive turbidite beds induced by huge earthquakes. We studied two sediment cores at 39°N to investiga...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:16 -
Correction: How large peak ground acceleration by large earthquakes could generate turbidity currents along the slope of northern Japan Trench
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:15 -
Correction: Climate-relevant properties of black carbon aerosols revealed by in situ measurements: a review
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:14 -
A simple method for taxon-specific purification of diatom frustules from ocean sediments using a cell sorter
It is necessary to purify diatom frustules by taxon to perform accurate geochemical analyses of diatom fossils preserved in sediments. However, the small size of diatoms has hitherto prevented taxon-specific p...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:13 -
Climate-relevant properties of black carbon aerosols revealed by in situ measurements: a review
Light-absorbing aerosols affect atmospheric radiation, dynamics, and precipitations through shortwave absorption in the atmosphere and snowpack. Black carbon (BC) is considered the most significant contributor...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:12 -
Fault geometry of M6-class normal-faulting earthquakes in the outer trench slope of Japan Trench from ocean bottom seismograph observations
Since the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake, intra-plate normal-faulting earthquakes, including several M7-class earthquakes, have occurred in the outer trench slope area from the trench to the outer rise alon...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:11 -
Near-real-time estimation of fossil fuel CO2 emissions from China based on atmospheric observations on Hateruma and Yonaguni Islands, Japan
We developed a near-real-time estimation method for temporal changes in fossil fuel CO2 (FFCO2) emissions from China for 3 months [January, February, March (JFM)] based on atmospheric CO2 and CH4 observations on ...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:10 -
Heterogeneous rheology of Japan subduction zone revealed by postseismic deformation of the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake
The 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake produced the most well-recorded postseismic deformation of any megathrust earthquake in the world. Over the last decade, researchers have used a dense and widespread geodetic n...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:9 -
How large peak ground acceleration by large earthquakes could generate turbidity currents along the slope of northern Japan Trench
Deep-sea turbidite has been used to determine the history of occurrence of large earthquakes. Surface-sediment remobilization is a mechanism of the generation of earthquake-induced turbidity currents. However,...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:8 -
Historical regional climate changes in Japan in winter as assessed by a 5-km regional climate model with a land surface process
We investigate historical regional climate changes in Japan from 1959 to 2020, analyzing a high-resolution dynamical downscaling forced by the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA-55). One-year continuous simulati...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:7 -
Synoptic meteorological conditions of gamma-ray glows in winter thunderstorms
The Gamma-ray Observation of Winter Thunderclouds collaboration has detected 70 gamma-ray glows, a high-energy phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, from October 2016 to March 2020 in Kanazawa and Komatsu,...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:6 -
Ensemble rainfall–runoff and inundation simulations using 100 and 1000 member rainfalls by 4D LETKF on the Kumagawa River flooding 2020
This paper presents the 1000 ensemble flood simulations using ensemble rainfalls simulated by 4D LETKF. The number of ensemble rainfall members is large as 1000 compared to the operational rainfall products of...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:5 -
Uplift rate of Kitadaito Jima Island on the lithospheric forebulge of the Philippine Sea Plate
Estimates of uplift rates for lithospheric forebulges are needed to understand exact plate motions at plate convergence zones and to delineate the fate of coral reefs atop the forebulges. A carbonate island on...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:4 -
Significance of the high-pressure properties and structural evolution of gas hydrates for inferring the interior of icy bodies
Hydrogen, methane, and water ice are among the most abundant materials in the universe. Based on experimental, theoretical, and spacecraft data, gas hydrates consisting of gas and water ice have been predicted...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:3 -
Single station bias calculation using data from calibrated GNSS station for various baseline distances
Precise ionospheric TEC can be derived from dual-frequency GNSS carrier phase leveled pseudorange measurements. However, differential code biases (DCB) of satellite and receiver are the main errors that cannot...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:2 -
A review on slow earthquakes in the Japan Trench
Slow earthquakes are episodic slow fault slips. They form a fundamental component of interplate deformation processes, along with fast, regular earthquakes. Recent seismological and geodetic observations have ...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2023 10:1 -
Assessment of S-net seafloor pressure data quality in view of seafloor geodesy
Long-term continuous observation of seafloor pressure is effective for detecting seafloor vertical deformations that are associated with transient tectonic phenomena such as slow slip events. Since the aseismi...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:73 -
Numerical estimation of a tsunami source at the flexural area of Kuril and Japan Trenches in the fifteenth to seventeenth century based on paleotsunami deposit distributions in northern Japan
Paleotsunami deposit investigations and numerical tsunami computations have been performed to elucidate the source and size of large tsunamis along the Kuril to Japan Trenches, particularly for unusual tsunami...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:72 -
Petrogenetic history and melt inclusion characteristics of mantle plume-derived ijolites from NE India: implications for multistage crystallization and occurrence of “nano-calciocarbonatites”
The Sung Valley ultramafic–alkaline–carbonatite complex (UACC) of Meghalaya, NE, India, is a result of magmatic activity related to the Kerguelen mantle plume spanning from 101 to 115 Ma. In the present study,...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:71 -
Simulated decadal variations of surface and subsurface phytoplankton in the upstream Kuroshio Extension region
Using outputs from an ecosystem model embedded in an eddy-resolving ocean general circulation model that can realistically simulate decadal modulations of the Kuroshio Extension (KE) between stable and unstabl...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:70 -
Washover deposits related to tsunami and storm surge along the north coast of the Shimokita Peninsula in northern Japan
A decade after the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake (Mw 9.0), geological surveys were conducted at multiple sites along the Pacific Coast of the tsunami-inundated Tohoku region in Japan, providing thousands of years...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:69 -
Forecasting tectonic tremor activity using a renewal process model
In many tectonically active regions of the world, a variety of slow deformation phenomena have been discovered and collectively termed slow earthquakes. Tectonic tremor is the high-frequency component of slow ...
Citation: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 2022 9:67