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Surface Ruptures of the Shirahata–Oike Section

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Book cover Surface Ruptures Associated with the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Sequence in Southwest Japan

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The ~7-km-long N20°E-trending southernmost section of the 2016 surface rupture extended from Shirahata to Oike and is characterized by a relatively simple and straight trace. This section cuts across alluvial plains and fluvial terrace surfaces and closely coincided with the previously mapped active fault trace. The section seemed to rupture the northernmost part of the NNE-trending Hinagu fault, or a transition zone between the Hinagu fault and the NE-trending Futagawa fault. Right-lateral offset was commonly observed along this section of the surface rupture, with offsets ranging from a few to 65 cm. In contrast, vertical displacement was largely negligible.

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The supplementary material of this book contains geographical information system (GIS) and spreadsheet files of the surface ruptures associated with the mainshock of the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence

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Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the JSPS grants 18H03601.

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  1. Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-1-1, Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8524, Japan

    Yasuhiro Kumahara

  2. Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0032, Japan

    Tatsuya Ishiyama

  3. Graduate School of Education, Okayama University, 3-1-1, Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama, Okayama, 700-8530, Japan

    Nobuhisa Matta

  4. Faculty of Education, Yamaguchi University, 1677-1, Yoshida, Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi, 753-8513, Japan

    Kyoko Kagohara

  5. Department of Geography, Faculty of Education, Shinshu University, 6-ro, Nishi-Nagano, Nagano, Nagano, 380-8544, Japan

    Daisuke Hirouchi

  6. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Law and Letters, Ehime University, 3, Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama, Ehime, 790-8577, Japan

    Satoshi Ishiguro

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    Yasuhiro Kumahara

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan

    Heitaro Kaneda

  3. Department of Environmental Systems Science, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

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Kumahara, Y., Ishiyama, T., Matta, N., Kagohara, K., Hirouchi, D., Ishiguro, S. (2022). Surface Ruptures of the Shirahata–Oike Section. In: Kumahara, Y., Kaneda, H., Tsutsumi, H. (eds) Surface Ruptures Associated with the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake Sequence in Southwest Japan. Advances in Geological Science. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1150-7_7

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