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Tomographic imaging of large earthquake source zones

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19H01996
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 17040:Solid earth sciences-related
Research InstitutionTohoku University

Principal Investigator

Zhao Dapeng  東北大学, 理学研究科, 教授 (70304665)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 豊国 源知  東北大学, 理学研究科, 助教 (90626871)
Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥17,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,990,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Keywords地震波トモグラフィー / 沈み込み帯 / 大地震 / 火山 / 地震波異方性 / 沈み込むスラブ / マントルウェッジ / マントルプルーム / スラブ / big mantle wedge / 地震 / 3次元構造 / 地殻地震 / プレート境界型地震 / スラブ脱水 / 流体 / 地震波速度 / 地震波減衰
Outline of Research at the Start

日本列島陸域から日本海溝までの海底に及ぶ,稠密な地震観測網で記録される膨大なデータを, 最先端の地震波トモグラフィー技術を開発・駆使して解析する. それにより,浅部から深部までの詳細な3次元構造を求め,巨大地震の発生機構・島弧火山の成因及び深部流体の移動などの沈み込みダイナミクスの解明に挑戦する.得られる研究成果は,日本列島のみでなく,世界の他の地域の研究にも大きなインパクトを与えるもので,世界の固体地球科学研究への波及効果も極めて大きい.さらに,地震や津波災害の防災・減災にも重要な意味を持つ.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We determined high-resolution seismic tomography of source zones of large earthquakes in subduction zones and continental regions, which shed new light on the seismogenic structures. Significant structural heterogeneities are revealed in and around the source zones of large earthquakes. Fluids from the subducting slab dehydration can trigger large crustal earthquakes. The generation of megathrust earthquakes is controlled by both the upper and lower plates, as well as subslab hot upwelling flow. Intraslab earthquakes can be caused by reactivation of hydrated faults produced at the outer-rise before plate subduction. Fluids may be involved in the generation of most earthquakes in subduction zones. These results indicate that large earthquakes do not take place randomly at any sites, but only in anomalous areas where prominent structural heterogeneities (i.e., seismogenic structures) exist, which can be detected by high-resolution geophysical imaging.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

日本列島陸域から日本海溝までの海底に及ぶ,稠密な地震観測網で記録される膨大なデータを, 最先端の地震波トモグラフィー技術を開発・駆使して解析した.それにより,浅部から深部までの詳細な3次元構造を求め,巨大地震の発生機構・島弧火山の成因及び深部流体の移動などの沈み込みダイナミクスの解明に挑戦した.また,世界の他の沈み込み帯と大陸地域の地下3次元構造と地震・火山活動についても調べた.得られる研究成果は,日本列島のみでなく,世界の他の地域の研究にも大きなインパクトを与えるもので,世界の固体地球科学的研究への波及効果も大きい.さらに,地震・火山・津波災害の防災・減災にも重要な意味を持つ.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2023 Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Annual Research Report
  • 2021 Annual Research Report
  • 2020 Annual Research Report
  • 2019 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (47 results)

All 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (6 results) Journal Article (25 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 19 results,  Peer Reviewed: 25 results,  Open Access: 22 results) Presentation (14 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 6 results,  Invited: 4 results) Remarks (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] 中国科学院/南方科学技術大学/中国海洋大学(中国)

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] National Institute of Geophysics(イタリア)

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Granada University(スペイン)

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] 南方科学技術大学/中国地震局/南京大学(中国)

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] 中国科学院(中国)

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] 南京大学/中国地質大学/中山大学(中国)

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Cause of Enigmatic Upper-Mantle Earthquakes in Central Wyoming2024

    • Author(s)
      Zhao Dapeng、Liang Xuran、Toyokuni Genti、Hua Yuanyuan、Xu Yi-Gang
    • Journal Title

      Seismological Research Letters

      Volume: 95 Issue: 4 Pages: 1-7

    • DOI

      10.1785/0220230333

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Remnants of shifting early Cenozoic Pacific lower mantle flow imaged beneath the Philippine Sea Plate2024

    • Author(s)
      Fan Jianke、Zhao Dapeng、Li Cuilin、Liu Lijun、Dong Dongdong
    • Journal Title

      Nature Geoscience

      Volume: 17 Issue: 4 Pages: 347-352

    • DOI

      10.1038/s41561-024-01404-6

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Big Mantle Wedge and Intraplate Volcanism in Alaska: Insight From Anisotropic Tomography2024

    • Author(s)
      Liang Xuran、Zhao Dapeng、Hua Yuanyuan、Xu Yi‐Gang
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

      Volume: 129 Issue: 1

    • DOI

      10.1029/2023jb027617

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] A Slab Window Beneath North Sumatra Revealed by P‐Wave Mantle Tomography2023

    • Author(s)
      Hu Hao、Zhao Dapeng、Lin Jian、Pilia Simone
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

      Volume: 128 Issue: 6

    • DOI

      10.1029/2022jb025976

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Anisotropic tomography and mantle dynamics of the North China Craton2023

    • Author(s)
      Guo Huili、Zhao Dapeng、Ding Zhifeng
    • Journal Title

      Geophysical Journal International

      Volume: 236 Issue: 3 Pages: 1455-1470

    • DOI

      10.1093/gji/ggad497

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Anisotropic tomography of the East Japan subduction zone: influence of inversion algorithms2023

    • Author(s)
      Jia Ruo、Zhao Dapeng
    • Journal Title

      Geophysical Journal International

      Volume: 234 Issue: 3 Pages: 2199-2213

    • DOI

      10.1093/gji/ggad197

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Seismic Anisotropy Tomography and Mantle Dynamics2023

    • Author(s)
      Zhao Dapeng、Liu Xin、Wang Zewei、Gou Tao
    • Journal Title

      Surveys in Geophysics

      Volume: 44 Issue: 4 Pages: 947-982

    • DOI

      10.1007/s10712-022-09764-7

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Seismic anisotropy and geodynamics of the East Japan subduction zone2023

    • Author(s)
      Zhao Dapeng、Wang Jian、Huang Zhouchuan、Liu Xin、Wang Zewei
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geodynamics

      Volume: 156 Pages: 101975-101975

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.jog.2023.101975

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Ancient slabs beneath Arctic and surroundings: Izanagi, Farallon, and in-betweens2023

    • Author(s)
      Toyokuni Genti、Zhao Dapeng
    • Journal Title

      Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

      Volume: 10 Issue: 1 Pages: 64-64

    • DOI

      10.1186/s40645-023-00595-7

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] P and S Wave Anisotropic Tomography of the Banda Subduction Zone2023

    • Author(s)
      Hua Yuanyuan、Zhao Dapeng、Xu Yi‐Gang
    • Journal Title

      Geophysical Research Letters

      Volume: 50 Issue: 18

    • DOI

      10.1029/2023gl105611

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The Moho, slab and tomography of the East Japan forearc derived from seafloor S-net data2022

    • Author(s)
      Dapeng Zhao, Yu Katayama, Genti Toyokuni
    • Journal Title

      Tectonophysics

      Volume: 837 Pages: 229452-229452

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229452

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Whole-mantle tomography of Southeast Asia: New insight into plumes and slabs2022

    • Author(s)
      Genti Toyokuni, Dapeng Zhao, Kenkichi Kutara
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

      Volume: 127 Issue: 11

    • DOI

      10.1029/2022jb024298

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Anisotropic Tomography and Dynamics of the Big Mantle Wedge2022

    • Author(s)
      Xuran Liang, Dapeng Zhao, Yi‐Gang Xu, Yuanyuan Hua
    • Journal Title

      Geophysical Research Letters

      Volume: 49 Issue: 5

    • DOI

      10.1029/2021gl097550

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Seismic Anisotropy and Intraslab Hydrated Faults Beneath the NE Japan Forearc2022

    • Author(s)
      Zewei Wang, Dapeng Zhao, Xiaofei Chen
    • Journal Title

      Geophysical Research Letters

      Volume: 49 Issue: 2

    • DOI

      10.1029/2021gl097266

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Azimuthal Anisotropy Tomography of the Southeast Asia Subduction System2022

    • Author(s)
      Yuanyuan Hua, Dapeng Zhao, Yi‐Gang Xu
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

      Volume: 127 Issue: 2

    • DOI

      10.1029/2021jb022854

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] 3D anisotropic structure of the Japan subduction zone2021

    • Author(s)
      Zewei Wang, Dapeng Zhao
    • Journal Title

      Science Advances

      Volume: 7 Issue: 4

    • DOI

      10.1126/sciadv.abc9620

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Deep mantle structure and origin of Cenozoic intraplate volcanoes in Indochina, Hainan and South China Sea2021

    • Author(s)
      Zhao, D., Toyokuni, G., & Kurata, K.
    • Journal Title

      Geophysical Journal International

      Volume: 225(1) Issue: 1 Pages: 572-588

    • DOI

      10.1093/gji/ggaa605

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Seismic imaging of Northwest Pacific and East Asia: New insight into volcanism, seismogenesis and geodynamics2021

    • Author(s)
      Dapeng Zhao
    • Journal Title

      Earth-Science Reviews

      Volume: 214 Pages: 103507-103507

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103507

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Seismic evidence for water transportation in the forearc off northern Japan2020

    • Author(s)
      Zhiteng Yu, Dapeng Zhao
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

      Volume: 125 Issue: 4 Pages: 1-16

    • DOI

      10.1029/2019jb018600

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Anisotropic Tomography Beneath Northeast Tibet: Evidence for Regional Crustal Flow2020

    • Author(s)
      Anhui Sun, Dapeng Zhao
    • Journal Title

      Tectonics

      Volume: 39 Issue: 7

    • DOI

      10.1029/2020tc006161

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Tomography of the source zone of the great 2011 Tohoku earthquake2020

    • Author(s)
      Hua Yuanyuan、Zhao Dapeng、Toyokuni Genti、Xu Yixian
    • Journal Title

      Nature Communications

      Volume: 11 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-7

    • DOI

      10.1038/s41467-020-14745-8

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Structural Heterogeneity in Source Zones of the 2018 Anchorage Intraslab Earthquake and the 1964 Alaska Megathrust Earthquake2020

    • Author(s)
      Gou Tao、Zhao Dapeng、Huang Zhouchuan、Wang Liangshu
    • Journal Title

      Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

      Volume: 21 Issue: 3 Pages: 1-19

    • DOI

      10.1029/2019gc008812

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Arc-arc collision caused the 2018 Eastern Iburi earthquake (M 6.7) in Hokkaido, Japan2019

    • Author(s)
      Hua Yuanyuan、Zhao Dapeng、Xu Yixian、Wang Zewei
    • Journal Title

      Scientific Reports

      Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-9

    • DOI

      10.1038/s41598-019-50305-x

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Structural Heterogeneity and Anisotropy in the Source Zone of the 2018 Eastern Iburi Earthquake in Hokkaido, Japan2019

    • Author(s)
      Gou Tao、Huang Zhouchuan、Zhao Dapeng、Wang Liangshu
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

      Volume: 124 Issue: 7 Pages: 7052-7066

    • DOI

      10.1029/2019jb017388

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Importance of later phases in seismic tomography2019

    • Author(s)
      Zhao Dapeng
    • Journal Title

      Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

      Volume: 296 Pages: 106314-106314

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.pepi.2019.106314

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] 地震波異方性から見たスラブ内の含水亀裂と地震発生2023

    • Author(s)
      趙大鵬, Zewei Wang
    • Organizer
      日本地球惑星科学連合2023年大会
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Slabs, plumes and intraplate volcanism in SE Asia2023

    • Author(s)
      趙大鵬, Y. Hua, Z. Wang
    • Organizer
      日本地球惑星科学連合2023年大会
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 地震波トモグラフィーから見た地震火山活動と地球内部ダイナミクス2023

    • Author(s)
      趙大鵬
    • Organizer
      日本地震学会2023年度秋季大会
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Seismic structure and anisotropy of Tohoku forearc: new insight into seismotectonics and subduction dynamics2023

    • Author(s)
      趙大鵬, G. Toyokuni, Z. Wang
    • Organizer
      American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] S-netとHi-netの近地・遠地地震データによる日本列島下の3 次元速度トモグラフィー2023

    • Author(s)
      鈴木基矢, 趙大鵬, 豊国源知
    • Organizer
      日本地震学会2023年度秋季大会
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Seismic structure and seismotectonics of the East Japan forearc derived from seafloor S-net data2022

    • Author(s)
      Zhao, D., Y. Katayama, G. Toyokuni
    • Organizer
      日本地震学会2022年度秋季大会
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Seismic structure, anisotropy and dynamics of the big mantle wedge2022

    • Author(s)
      Zhao, D., R. Jia
    • Organizer
      日本地球惑星科学連合2022年大会
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] P-wave anisotropy and intraslab earthquakes in the Tohoku forearc2022

    • Author(s)
      Zhao, D., Z.W. Wang
    • Organizer
      日本地球惑星科学連合2022年大会
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 南米とその周辺地域下のP波マントルトモグラフィー2022

    • Author(s)
      高田大輔・豊国源知・趙大鵬
    • Organizer
      日本地球惑星科学連合2022年大会
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] New insights into East Asian mantle structure and dynamics2020

    • Author(s)
      Dapeng Zhao
    • Organizer
      JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] S-netデータによる東日本前弧域の不均質構造と地震発生機構2020

    • Author(s)
      D. Zhao, Y. Hua, G. Toyokuni, Z. Yu
    • Organizer
      日本地震学会
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Slab subductions and earthquake-volcano interactions in Western Japan2019

    • Author(s)
      Zhao Dapeng、Liu Xin、Hua Yuanyuan
    • Organizer
      Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 2018年胆振東部地震震源域のトモグラフィーと異方性構造2019

    • Author(s)
      趙大鵬、Gou Tao、Huang Zhouchuan、Wang Liangshu
    • Organizer
      日本地震学会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 活火山域の深部構造・低周波地震とマグマ供給系2019

    • Author(s)
      趙大鵬
    • Organizer
      日本地球惑星科学連合
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Remarks] 地球のマントル中部に地震波異方性を発見 ―地震と火山噴火の根本原因の理解に重要な手がかり―

    • URL

      https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/2024/03/press20240313-01-mantle.html

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] 東北地方太平洋沖地震の震源構造を解明 -プレート境界の岩石硬さの違いが地震発生をコントロール-

    • URL

      http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/2020/03/press20200306-02-plate.html

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report

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