Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016

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International Session (Poster)

Symbol S (Solid Earth Sciences) » S-SS Seismology

[S-SS02] Frontier studies on subduction zone megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis

Tue. May 24, 2016 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM Poster Hall (International Exhibition Hall HALL6)

Convener:*Kyuichi Kanagawa(Graduate School of Science, Chiba University), Demian Saffer(Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, USA), Michael Strasser(University of Innsbruck), James Kirkpatrick(McGill University), Shuichi Kodaira(R&D Center for Earthquake and Tsunami Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Ryota Hino(Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University), Yasuhiro Yamada(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), R&D Center for Ocean Drilling Science (ODS)), Kohtaro Ujiie(Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba), Yoshihiro Ito(Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)

5:15 PM - 6:30 PM

[SSS02-P12] Submarine landslide on the hanging wall of mega-splay fault, Kumano-nada, Nankai Trough

*Toshiya Kanamatsu1, Juichiro Ashi2, Ken Ikehara3, KH-15-2 Leg3 scientific party (1.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 2.Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, 3.Institute of Geology and Geoinformation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)

Keywords:Submarine landslide, meag-splay fault, Nanki Trough, Navigable Sampling System

Submarine landslide in the Kumanonada splay fault, Nankai Trough, southwest Japan were explored by Navigable Sampling System (NSS), Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo. A sedimentary sequence in the area was cored by IODP Expedition 333 in advance as the ‘‘Nankai Trough Submarine Landslides History”. The Pleistocene to Holocene sequence of stacked mass-transport deposits was recovered at Site C0018, located within a slope basin on the footwall of the mega-splay fault. Six mass-transport deposit (MTD) units intercalated with coherent intervals were recovered within 1Ma. Although the MTD occurrences were regarded to have been induced by the past Nankai earthquake events, the found frequency of MTDs is absolutely lower than that of To-nankai and Nankai earthquake as every 100-200 year intervals during the historical times. This discrepancy indicates that our understanding on the collapsing induced by the mega-splay faulting is not enough. In order to have well documentations on the relationship between the mega-splay fault and MTDs, we implemented a sub-bottom imaging around the mega-splay fault using NSS. We recovered the image which shows that a 20-m thick sediment layer slid down about 50-m high on the hanging wall of mega-splay fault. Also the image shows that the small depression formed by this sliding was aggraded by fill deposits after the event. If those events were corresponding to a mega-splay faulting in a time, the record will be a proxy to shows the timing of mega-splay faulting in past. And the dimension interpreted from obtained image is useful to assess the risk of hazard induced by mega-splay faulting. We will discuss the scenario of this collapse using data acquired during the cruise.