Seabed Pressure Gauge Installed Offshore New Zealand (IMAGE)

Kyoto University

Seabed Pressure Gauge Installed Offshore New Zealand

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Seismologists recorded a slow slip event in a shallow area of plate boundary at the Hikurangi margin off the northeast shore of New Zealand, showing for the first time that such slippage can occur near troughs. This implies that subduction plates may be accumulating much more stress and strain than previously believed - -before they bounce back to set off tsunami earthquakes. The image shows one of the 24 seabed pressure gauges installed in the Hikurangi subduction margin.

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Yoshihiro Ito/Kyoto University

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