Detection of Interplate Earthquakes in the Source Area of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Using Extensive Seafloor Aftershock Observation Data

Yukihiro Nakatani1, Kimihiro Mochizuki2, Masanao Shinohara3, Tomoaki Yamada4, Hajime Shiobara3, Ryota Hino5, Ryosuke Azuma5, Yoshihiro Ito6, Yoshio Murai7, Toshinori Sato8, Kenji Uehira9, Takashi Shimbo10, Hiroshi Yakiwara11, Shuichi Kodaira12, Yuya Machida13, Kenji Hirata14 and Hiroaki Tsushima15, (1)Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (2)University of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (3)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (4)ERI, TheUniversity of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (5)Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, Japan, (6)Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (7)Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (8)Faculty Science Chiba Univ, Chiba, Japan, (9)National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Tsukuba, Japan, (10)National Research Institute for Earth Science, Tsukuba, Japan, (11)Nansei-toko Observatory, Kagoshima, Japan, (12)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan, (13)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (14)National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan, (15)Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan