A team of researchers at Ehime University Geodynamics Research Center (GRC) led by Dr. Tomohiro Ohuchi, Xinglin Lei, Hiroaki Ohfuji, Yuji Higo, Yoshinori Tange, Takeshi Sakai, Kiyoshi Fujino & Tetsuo Irifune succeeded in discovering that intermediate-depth earthquakes are linked to localized heating in dunite and harzburgite.

This research was published on an online version of Nature Geoscience dated August 28th.

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Journal Nature Geoscience
https://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo3011.html
Title of original paper

Intermediate-depth earthquakes linked to localized heating in dunite and harzburgite
Authors Tomohiro Ohuchi(1), Xinglin Lei(2), Yuji Higo(3), Yoshinori Tange(3), Takeshi Sakai(1), Kiyoshi Fujino(1), Tetsuo Irifune(1)(4)

DOI

10.1038/ngeo3011
Affiliations

(1) Ehime Univesity Geodynamics Research Center (GRC)
(2) National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
(3) Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute
(4) Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), Tokyo Institute of Technology

For more details, please see Ehime University's website and the press release document. (sorry only Japanese press release is available)

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