@article{ab5fae591eeb49e982a46efcb1778787,
title = "Slow slip near the trench at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand",
abstract = "The range of fault slip behaviors near the trench at subduction plate boundaries is critical to know, as this is where the world's largest, most damaging tsunamis are generated. Our knowledge of these behaviors has remained largely incomplete, partially due to the challenging nature of crustal deformation measurements at offshore plate boundaries. Here we present detailed seafloor deformation observations made during an offshore slow-slip event (SSE) in September and October 2014, using a network of absolute pressure gauges deployed at the Hikurangi subduction margin offshore New Zealand. These data show the distribution of vertical seafloor deformation during the SSE and reveal direct evidence for SSEs occurring close to the trench (within 2 kilometers of the seafloor), where very low temperatures and pressures exist.",
author = "Wallace, {Laura M.} and Webb, {Spahr C.} and Yoshihiro Ito and Kimihiro Mochizuki and Ryota Hino and Stuart Henrys and Schwartz, {Susan Y.} and Sheehan, {Anne F.}",
note = "Funding Information: We acknowledge support from U.S. NSF grants OCE-1334654, 1333311, 1332875, and 1333025 to L.M.W., S.C.W., S.Y.S., and A.F.S. and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science grant KAKENHI-26257206 to Y.I. Raw data from the experiment are archived at the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Data Management Center. Additional funding support came from Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; the University of Tokyo Earthquake Research Institute; and the International Research Institute of Disaster Science at Tohoku University. Support for ship time was provided by NSF, GNS Science, and Land Information New Zealand's Oceans 2020 program. We greatly appreciate the immense contribution to the success of this project from ocean bottom instrument engineering teams at LDEO, UTIG, University of Tokyo, and Tohoku University, as well as the captain and crew of the U.S. R/V Roger Revelle and New Zealand R/V Tangaroa.",
year = "2016",
month = may,
day = "6",
doi = "10.1126/science.aaf2349",
language = "English",
volume = "352",
pages = "701--704",
journal = "Science",
issn = "0036-8075",
publisher = "American Association for the Advancement of Science",
number = "6286",
}