RAPID - Collaborative Research - Offshore impacts of the Tohoku-Oki earthquake on seafloor deformati

Lead PI: Dr. Cecilia M. McHugh , Mr. Leonardo Seeber

Unit Affiliation: Marine and Polar Geophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)

August 2011 - July 2013
Inactive
Asia ; Japan
Project Type: Research

DESCRIPTION: The rupture area of the Tohoku-Oki earthquake has been extensively surveyed so this project will precisely quantify the morphological, sedimentological, and structural changes that may occur along a submerged plate boundary during a large earthquake.

SPONSOR:

National Science Foundation (NSF)

FUNDED AMOUNT:

$87,116

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLLABORATORS:

Seismology, Geology & Tectonophysics (SG&T)

EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS:

University of Missouri, Japan Agency for Marine Earth-Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)

WEBSITE:

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1139036&HistoricalAwards=false

PUBLICATIONS:

L. Seeber, K. Hirata, R. Rhardiawan, T. Fugjiara, A. Misawa, C. McHugh, and M.H. Cormier. "The partitioning of Strain in Space and Time at Subduction Boundaries: Aceh Promontory and Simeulue Reentrant along the Sunda Forearc, Northern Sumatra", 08/01/2011-07/31/2012, 2012, "1st Korea-Japan Marine Geosciences Symposium on Geodynamics of Indian and Pacific Oceans in South Korea".

M.H. Cormier, L. Seeber, C. McHugh, K. Hirata, and T. Fujiwara. "Offshore impacts of megathrust earthquakes: Clues from the recent rupture at the Japan Trench", 08/01/2011-07/31/2012, 2012, "International Conference on a New Perspective of Great Earthquakes along Subduction Zones".

L. Seeber, K. Hirara, R. Rahardiawan, T. Fujiwara, A. Misawa, C. M. McHugh, M.-H. Cormier. "Oblique accretion, slip partitioning, and longitudinal extension on the Aceh Promontory of the Sunda Arc in the 2004-2005 rupture areas, northern Sumatra", 08/01/2011-07/31/2012, 2011, "AGU Fall 2011 meting, Abstract #T33G-2508".

KEYWORDS

seafloor deformation earthquakes tsunamigenesis erosion sedimentation marine geology and geophysics

THEMES

Restless earth