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Record W4417474441 · doi:10.1126/science.ady0234

Extreme plate boundary localization promotes shallow earthquake slip at the Japan Trench

2025· article· en· W4417474441 on OpenAlexaff
J. D. Kirkpatrick, H. M. Savage, Christine Regalla, Srisharan Shreedharan, Catherine H. Ross, H. Okuda, Uisdean Nicholson, Kohtaro Ujiie, Ron Hackney, Marianne Conin, Penggang Pei, S. Satolli, Junli Zhang, P. M. Fulton, Matt J. Ikari, Lena Maeda, Natsumi Okutsu, Sean Toczko, Nobuhisa Eguchi, Piero Bellanova, Colin Brown, Morgane M.Y. Brunet, M. Rene Castillo, Yu‐Chun Chang, Mai‐Linh Doan, Jenna Everard, Alysa Fintel, Jonathan Ford, Rina Fukuchi, Amy Gough, Huiyun Guo, Derya Gürer, M. Hagino, Yohei Hamada, Hideo Hosono, María José Jurado, Akira Ijiri, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Masao Iwai, T.N. Jeppson, Nana Kamiya, Toshiya Kanamatsu, Aubrey Laplante, Weiren Lin, Ayumu Miyakawa, Yuki Morono, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Charlotte Pizer, E. Troy Rasbury, Rebecca T. Robertson, Kaitlin E. Schaible, Hiroki Sone, Chijun Sun, Taizo UCHIDA, P. Vannucchi, Asuka Yamaguchi, Yuzuru Yamamoto, Takeru Yoshimoto

Bibliographic record

VenueScience · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
Topicearthquake and tectonic studies
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec à Rimouski
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTrenchSubductionAccretionary wedgePlate tectonicsSlip (aerodynamics)Tsunami earthquakeInterplate earthquakePelagic sedimentSan andreas faultConvergent boundary

Abstract

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The 2011 moment magnitude 9.1 Tohoku-oki earthquake is exceptional among great earthquakes for having peak slip of ~50 to 70 meters on the shallowest portion of the plate boundary megathrust. Drill cores and geophysical logs from International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 405 demonstrate that the megathrust preferentially develops at the top or base of the pelagic clay in the sedimentary layers present on the incoming Pacific Plate, where pronounced contrasts in physical properties occur. This preference results in a narrow, weak fault located at a major mechanical contact between frontal prism mud and subducted sediments, which enhances the tendency for shallow seismic slip, suggesting that the Japan Trench may be more susceptible to ruptures with large shallow slip than are margins without weak clays.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.017

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.233
Teacher spread0.211 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations2
Published2025
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