Transient Uplift After a 17th-Century Earthquake Along the Kuril Subduction Zone

Sawai, Yuki; Satake, Kenji; Kamataki, Takanobu; Nasu, Hiroo; Shishikura, Masanobu; F. Atwater, Brian; P. Horton, Benjamin; M. Kelsey, Harvey; Nagumo, Tamotsu; Yamaguchi, Masaaki

doi:10.1126/science.1104895

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Transient Uplift After a 17th-Century Earthquake Along the Kuril Subduction Zone

Published in Science • Dec 10, 2004

Authors:

Yuki Sawai

Kenji Satake

Takanobu Kamataki

Abstract

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 e...

Subject

Subduction

Geology

Plate tectonics

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