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 Shiobara5, Ryota Hino6, Ryosuke Azuma6, Yoshihiro Ito7, Yoshio Murai8, Toshinori Sato9, Kenji Uehira10, Takashi Shimbo11, Hiroshi Yakiwara12, Shuichi Kodaira13, Yuya Machida14, Kenji Hirata15 and Hiroaki Tsushima16, (1)Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (2)University of Tokyo, Earthquake Research Institute, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (3)Earthquake Research Institute, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (4)ERI, TheUniversity of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (5)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (6)Tohoku University, Graduate School of Science, Sendai, Japan, (7)Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (8)Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (9)Faculty Science Chiba Univ, Chiba, Japan, (10)National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Tsukuba, Japan, (11)National Research Institute for Earth Science, Tsukuba, Japan, (12)Nansei-toko Observatory, Kagoshima, Japan, (13)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan, (14)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan, (15)National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan, (16)Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan