Probability of a great earthquake to recur in the Tokai district, Japan: reevaluation based on newly-developed paleoseismology, plate tectonics, tsunami study, micro-seismicity and geodetic measurements
Abstract
In light of newly-acquired geophysical information about earthquake generation in the Tokai area, Central Japan, where occurrence of a great earthquake of magnitude 8 or so has recently been feared, probabilities of earthquake occurrence in the near future are reevaluated. Much of the data used for evaluation here relies on recently-developed paleoseismology, tsunami study and GPS geodesy.
- Publication:
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Earth, Planets and Space
- Pub Date:
- June 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1186/BF03352219
- Bibcode:
- 1999EP&S...51..147R
- Keywords:
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- Return Period;
- Great Earthquake;
- Earthquake Occurrence;
- Fault Slip;
- Ultimate Strain