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Major magmatic activity as a key to predicting large earthquakes along the Sagami Trough, Japan

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MIHARA-YAMA is a basaltic stratovolcano on Oshima, an island lying about 20 km off the coast of Izu Peninsula in central Japan (Fig. 1). I attempt here to show that the magmatic activity of Mihara-yama could be used to predict large earthquakes along the Sagami Trough. There is apparently a causal relationship between eruptions of Mihara-yama and the earthquakes.

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KIMURA, M. Major magmatic activity as a key to predicting large earthquakes along the Sagami Trough, Japan. Nature 260, 131–133 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/260131b0

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