TY - JOUR
T1 - Transient uplift after a 17th-century earthquake along the kuril subduction zone
AU - Sawai, Yuki
AU - Satake, Kenji
AU - Kamataki, Takanobu
AU - Nasu, Hiroo
AU - Shishikura, Masanobu
AU - Atwater, Brian F.
AU - Horton, Benjamin P.
AU - Kelsey, Harvey M.
AU - Nagumo, Tamotsu
AU - Yamaguchi, Masaaki
PY - 2004/12/10
Y1 - 2004/12/10
N2 - In eastern Hokkaido, 60 to 80 kilometers above a subducting oceanic plate, tidal mudflats changed into freshwater forests during the first decades after a 17th-century tsunami. The mudflats gradually rose by a meter, as judged from fossil diatom assemblages. Both the tsunami and the ensuing uplift exceeded any in the region's 200 years of written history, and both resulted from a shallow plate-boundary earthquake of unusually large size along the Kuril subduction zone. This earthquake probably induced more creep farther down the plate boundary than did any of the region's historical events.
AB - In eastern Hokkaido, 60 to 80 kilometers above a subducting oceanic plate, tidal mudflats changed into freshwater forests during the first decades after a 17th-century tsunami. The mudflats gradually rose by a meter, as judged from fossil diatom assemblages. Both the tsunami and the ensuing uplift exceeded any in the region's 200 years of written history, and both resulted from a shallow plate-boundary earthquake of unusually large size along the Kuril subduction zone. This earthquake probably induced more creep farther down the plate boundary than did any of the region's historical events.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.1104895
DO - 10.1126/science.1104895
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:10344235253
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 306
SP - 1918
EP - 1920
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 5703
ER -
