Most Recent Articles: Earth, Planets and Space
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Thu, 02/15/2024 - 00:00
The profile of tephra concentration along a volcanic plume (i.e., the tephra segregation profile) is an important source parameter for the simulation of tephra transport and deposition and thus for the tephra ...
Wed, 02/14/2024 - 00:00
As megathrust earthquakes often have source areas in offshore regions, offshore seismic observations are important. However, the detection capability and resolution of offshore earthquake locations are low owi...
Wed, 02/07/2024 - 00:00
Atera Fault clay gouges were collected for age dating near Kawaue, Nakatsugawa City, Central Japan, and the results integrated within its complex geological history. The results form an internally consistent d...
Tue, 02/06/2024 - 00:00
When evaluating strong ground motions and tsunamis from specified source faults, it is required that the input parameters, such as fault geometry, rake angle, and slip amount, do not deviate from those of a re...
Sun, 02/04/2024 - 00:00
The devastation caused by the January 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano (HTHH) in the Tongan archipelago reminded us of the importance of monitoring shallow-sea volcanic activity. Seismic obse...
Sun, 02/04/2024 - 00:00
Seismic activity in the Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, has increased since August 2020 and has continued as of August 2023. Stress changes due to subsurface sources and increases in fluid p...
Wed, 01/31/2024 - 00:00
According to a 2013 report by the Earthquake Research Committee of Japan, it was estimated that the probability of the occurrence of the next Nankai earthquake within the next three decades is 70–80%. Therefor...
Tue, 01/30/2024 - 00:00
Describing the evolution of the neo-volcanic zone in the spreading ridge is essential for understanding the dynamics and environments of abyssal basins. However, the absolute dating of ocean floor basalts is g...
Tue, 01/30/2024 - 00:00
The Jiali-Chayu fault, situated on the eastern side of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis, is the southeastern margin of the large strike-slip fault zone of the Jiali Fault. The study of the distribution and activ...
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 00:00
Nowadays a unit quaternion is widely employed to represent the three-dimensional (3D) rotation matrix and then applied to the 3D similarity coordinate transformation. A unit dual quaternion can describe not on...
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 00:00
The Zhurong rover of the Tianwen-1 mission successfully landed in the southern part of the Utopian Planitia and the northern region of the dichotomy boundary. Craters within a ~ 134 km2 region surrounding the Zhu...
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 00:00
The difference between observed and modelled precession/nutation reveals unmodelled signals commonly referred to as Celestial Pole Offsets (CPO), denoted by dX and dY. CPO are currently observed only by Very L...
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 00:00
The East China Sea, situated at the intersection of the Eurasian, Philippine Sea, and Pacific plates, is characterized by complex geology influenced by tectonic phenomena such as plate movements, volcanism, fa...
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 00:00
The volcano of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai in Tonga erupted on 15 January 2022, generating severe disturbances in the atmosphere and the ionosphere. This event provided us with large amount of data of the atmospher...
Mon, 01/22/2024 - 00:00
Bathymetry data over lake areas are not included in the current and previous NGS (National Geodetic Survey) geoid models. Lake surfaces are simply treated as land surfaces during the modeling regardless of the...
