Understanding "slow-slip" earthquakes

Jun 23, 2017

Japanese slow earthquakes could shed light on tsunami generation

The Observatory is lowered from the research vessel Chikyu. Photo: JAMSTEC

Recent borehole observatory installations offshore Japan unravel how much energy is released in slow slip earthquakes, as recently published in Science by observatory specialist Eiichiro Araki (JAMSTEC) and co-chief scientists Demian Saffer (PSU) and Achim Kopf (MARUM Bremen) after IODP expedition 365.

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An observatory is lowered from the research vessel Chikyu. Photo: Demian Saffer / Penn State