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Northeast Japan is a typical subduction zone characterized by active seismicity, volcanism and tectonics. Kashima very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) station is located on the “outer arc”, that is, between the volcanic front and the Japan trench. The existence of many active faults in intraplate Japan suggests complicated crustal deformation making Kashima station somewhat unsuitable for the measurement of the tectonic plate motion itself. From another viewpoint, however, the measurment of the displacement of such an island arc station with respect to the stable plate interior will provide information on the on-going deformation of the island arc (Fig.1).
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Heki, K. (1990). Displacement of a Japanese VLBI Station as an Indicator of the Island Arc Contraction. In: Vyskocil, P., Reigber, C., Cross, P.A. (eds) Global and Regional Geodynamics. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 101. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7109-4_11
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