Publication Date:
2004-12-14
Description:
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.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Sawai, Yuki -- Satake, Kenji -- Kamataki, Takanobu -- Nasu, Hiroo -- Shishikura, Masanobu -- Atwater, Brian F -- Horton, Benjamin P -- Kelsey, Harvey M -- Nagumo, Tamotsu -- Yamaguchi, Masaaki -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Dec 10;306(5703):1918-20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Active Fault Research Center, Geological Survey of Japan, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Site C7 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8567, Japan. yuki.sawai@aist.go.jp〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15591198" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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