Underground structures associated with horizontal sliding at Uchinomaki hot springs, Kyushu, Japan, during the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake

Abstract The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake (Mw 7.0) caused hot springs in the Uchinomaki area of Aso caldera to become dormant. Geodetic and borehole observations have previously demonstrated that the area around the hot springs slid horizontally ~ 2 m to the northwest during the earthquake. However, the...

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Main Authors: Kosuke Takahashi, Takeshi Tsuji, Tatsunori Ikeda, Hiro Nimiya, Yuichiro Nagata, Yudai Suemoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-08-01
Series:Earth, Planets and Space
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-019-1066-y