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Twelve deep-sea turbidites were identified in the Holocene sequence of a core collected from the western foot of the Kaiyo Seamount, located near the fault area of the 1940 Shakotan-oki earthquake, northern Okushiri Ridge, eastern margin of the northern Japan Sea. On the basis of the geological, tectonic, and topographical settings of the site, the turbidites are interpreted as of earthquake origin (seismoturbidite). Age determinations on radiolarian remains in the sediments suggested that the uppermost sediments, younger than 3 ky BP, were lost during the coring. Four clear faunal boundaries, at 4, 6, 8.5, and 10.5 ka, were recognized. The turbidite recurrence interval in the deep-sea basin indicated an average recurrence interval for large earthquakes of 500–1,000 years around the Kaiyo Seamount during the early- to middle Holocene.
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We thank to the captain, officers, crew, and on-board scientists of the BO94-08 cruise, especially the late Prof. Jiro Ishii of Hokkaido Tokai University, for helping with the sampling, and those of the GH99 cruise, especially Dr. Kohsaku Arai of the Geological Survey of Japan for obtaining the sub-bottom profiling records. Thanks also to Dr. Yukinobu Okamura for his critical reading of an early version of the manuscript. We thank Prof. Michael Strasser and Dr. Toshiya Kanamatsu for their constructive comments, which improved the manuscript.
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Ikehara, K., Itaki, T., TuZino, T., Hoyanagi, K. (2014). Deep-Sea Turbidite Evidence on the Recurrence of Large Earthquakes Off Shakotan Peninsula, Northeastern Japan Sea. In: Krastel, S., et al. Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 37. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00972-8_57
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