Introduction animation I
Plate models from Mizuho Ishida model.

Geometry and Relative Motion of the Philippine Sea Plate and Pacific Plate Beneath the Kanto-Tokai District, Japan. JGR, Vol. 97, No B1, p. 489-513, 1992.

Introduction animation II
Plate models from Mizuho Ishida model.

Geometry and Relative Motion of the Philippine Sea Plate and Pacific Plate Beneath the Kanto-Tokai District, Japan. JGR, Vol. 97, No B1, p. 489-513, 1992.

   
 

1923 Fault Plane Models

3D visualizations of Mitsuhiro Matsu'ura et al model (model 1)

Statical and dynamical study on faulting mechanis, of the 1923 Kanto earthquake, J. Phys. Earth, Vol. 28, p.119-143, 1980.

3D visualizations of Mitsuhiro Matsu'ura et al models (model 3)

Statical and dynamical study on faulting mechanis, of the 1923 Kanto earthquake, J. Phys. Earth, Vol. 28, p.119-143, 1980.

3D visualization of Fred Pollitz et al model

Shear partitioning near the central Japan triple junction: the 1923 great Kanto earthquake revisited II, Geophys. J. Int., Vol. 126, p.882-892, 1996.

3D visualization of Wald & Summerville model

Variable-Slip Rupture Model Of The Great 1923 Kanto, Japan Earthquake: Geodetic And Body-Waveform Analysis, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., Vol. 85, p.159-177, 1995.

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