Recurrence of postseismic coastal uplift, Kuril subduction zone, Japan

Geophysical Research Letters
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Coastal stratigraphy of eastern Hokkaido indicates that decimeters of coastal uplitt occurred repeatedly m the late Holocene. Employing radiocarbon dating and tephrochronology, we identify along a 100 km length of the Kuril subduction zone six uplift events since ???2,800 years B.P. Uplift events occur at the same frequency as unusually high tsunamis. Each coastal uplift event, which occurs on average every 500 years, is the product of decade-long post seismic deep slip on the down dip extension of the seismogenic plate boundary following an offshore multi-segment earthquake that generates unusually high tsunamis. Copyright 2006 by the American Geophysical Union.
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Title Recurrence of postseismic coastal uplift, Kuril subduction zone, Japan
Series title Geophysical Research Letters
DOI 10.1029/2006GL026052
Volume 33
Issue 13
Year Published 2006
Language English
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