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Practicality of Monitoring Crustal Deformation Processes in Subduction Zones by Seafloor and Inland Networks of Seismological Observations

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The seismic gap off Tokai (Ishibashi 1981) is well known, and the last Tokai earthquake (M8.4) occurred there in 1854. This Tokai seismic gap has had a large social impact on seismologists worldwide and also the general public in Japan, and many researchers have investigated the risk occurrence of another earthquake from seismological and geological aspects.

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Acknowledgements

Some figures were drawn using GTOPO30 (available from the U.S. Geological Survey) and GMT software (Wessel and Smith 1998). Hydraulic pressure data shown in Fig. 13 and their map in Fig. 14 were obtained by the DONET program of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Publication of this chapter was partly supported by MEXT for Young Scientists (B), 23710212, 2013, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 15H04228, 2015, and by the Geodynamics program. The authors would like to thank Enago (www.enago.jp) for the English language review.

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Ariyoshi, K., Kaneda, Y. (2016). Practicality of Monitoring Crustal Deformation Processes in Subduction Zones by Seafloor and Inland Networks of Seismological Observations. In: D'Amico, S. (eds) Earthquakes and Their Impact on Society. Springer Natural Hazards. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21753-6_6

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