image: The drilling derrick on the Deep Sea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU at night. This image relates to a package of papers that appeared in the 6 December, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The papers, by Frederick Chester at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, Kohtaro Ujiie at University of Tsukuba in Tsukuba, Japan, Patrick Fulton at University of California, Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, Calif., and colleagues were titled, "Structure and Composition of the Plate-Boundary Slip Zone for the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake," "Low Coseismic Shear Stress on the Tohoku-Oki Megathrust Determined from Laboratory Experiments," and "Low Coseismic Friction on the Tohoku-Oki Fault Determined from Temperature Measurements," respectively. view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of IODP/JAMSTEC]