University of California, Santa Cruz Department of Ocean Sciences, School of Earth & Marine Science
Tohoku Subduction Zone Observatory: Investigating Mechanisms of Megathrust Earthquakes
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Amount |
Date Approved |
| 36 months |
$757,876 |
Sep. 2012 |
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Purpose
In support of participation in the international rapid-response project Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project, which has established the first ever underwater earthquake "observatory" by deep-water drilling at the site of the devastating March 2011 Tohoku megathrust earthquake. Researchers will analyze the temperature and permeability data recovered from the observatory to obtain new fundamental knowledge about physical properties of the fault during a major earthquake and as the fault recovers and prepares for the next event.
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