Post-seismic deformation (IMAGE)

Ehime University

Post-seismic deformation

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Upper: A cross-section view of a subduction zone just after an earthquake on the plate boundary. Tensile stress is coseismically induced in the plates.
Lower: A few years after the earthquake. Post-seismic displacements of land are significant due to the upwelling flow of the uppermost mantle induced by the earthquake. After Sun et al. (2014 Nature).

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Tomohiro Ohuchi

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