Muography as a new tool to study the historic earthquakes recorded in ancient burial mounds

<p>Bidirectional muographic measurements were conducted at the Imashirozuka burial mound, Japan. The mound was built in the beginning of the 6th century as a megalithic tomb and later collapsed after a landslide caused by the 1596 Fushimi earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes that has occ...

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Main Authors: H. K. M. Tanaka, K. Sumiya, L. Oláh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2020-09-01
Series:Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems
Online Access:https://gi.copernicus.org/articles/9/357/2020/gi-9-357-2020.pdf