@article {wamba_data-space_2025,
	title = {Data-space cross-validation of mantle structure in global tomographic models underneath the Pacific Ocean},
	journal = {Geophysical Journal International},
	volume = {241},
	number = {1},
	year = {2025},
	note = {_eprint: https://academic.oup.com/gji/article-pdf/241/1/241/61706719/ggaf044.pdf},
	month = {jan},
	pages = {241{\textendash}259},
	abstract = {Seismic tomography is a principal method for studying mantle structure, but imaging of Earth{\textquoteright}s wave speed anomalies is conditioned by seismic wave sampling. Global models use misfit criteria that may strive for balance between portions of the data set but can leave important regional domains underserved. We evaluate two full-waveform global tomography wave speed models, GLAD-M25 (Global adjoint tomography model) and SEMUCB-WM1 (whole-mantle tomography model derived from fully numerical spectral element method forward modelling), in the mantle below the Pacific Ocean. The region of the South Pacific Superswell contains multiple hotspots which may be fed by plumes anchored in the Large Low Shear-Velocity Province at the base of the mantle. The uneven distribution of seismic receivers worldwide leaves several candidate plumes beneath various hotspots poorly resolved. We assess the regional quality of GLAD-M25 relative to its global performance using a partition of the seismic waveform data used in its construction. We evaluate synthetic waveforms computed using the spectral-element method to determine how well they fit the data according to a variety of criteria measured across multiple seismic phases and frequency bands. The distributions of traveltime anomalies that remain in GLAD-M25 are wider for trans-Pacific paths than globally, suggesting comparatively insufficiently resolved seismic velocity structure in the region of interest. Hence, Pacific-centred regional inversions, based on (augmented) subsets of the global data set have the potential to enhance the resolution of velocity structure. We compare GLAD-M25 and SEMUCB-WM1 by cross-validation with a new, independent, data set. Our results reveal that short- and long-wavelength structure is captured differently by the two models. Our findings lead us to recommend focusing future model iteration on and around the Pacific Superswell and adding data that sample new corridors, especially using ocean sensors, to better constrain seismic velocity structure in this area of significant geodynamic complexity.},
	issn = {1365-246X},
	doi = {10.1093/gji/ggaf044},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaf044},
	author = {Wamba, Mathurin D and Simons, Frederik J and Irving, Jessica C E}
}
@article {kim_application_2024,
	title = {Application of the reverberation waveform inversion for the high-resolution sediment layer structure in the Pacific},
	journal = {Geophysical Journal International},
	volume = {240},
	number = {2},
	year = {2024},
	note = {_eprint: https://academic.oup.com/gji/article-pdf/240/2/1331/61230955/ggae444.pdf},
	pages = {1331{\textendash}1344},
	abstract = {This study presents the velocity structures of the seafloor sediment across the Pacific using teleseismic body waves recorded by arrays of ocean bottom seismometers (OBSs). We apply the method inverting the multicomponent stacked autocorrelation functions and radial-component waveform of teleseismic body waves. We analyze OBSs distributed across the Pacific Ocean, through a wide range of water depths and equipped with various sensor types. The inverted models agreeing with measurements of seafloor drilling samples demonstrate the broad applicability of employing the inversion method to resolve sediment thicknesses ranging from \&lt;100 m to a few kilometers. In addition to various broad-band OBSs, we confirm our method works also for short-period sensors, since our retrieved the model using data from a short-period sensor in Northeast Japan agrees with active-source seismic survey analyses. The constrained models show various numbers of intrasediment discontinuities across different locations. Furthermore, the newly characterized sediment models have higher values of P-wave to S-wave velocity ratio ({{V}_P}\textbackslash/{{V}_S}\textbackslash) than the previously known scaling relationships, which suggests a larger effect of sediment-layer reverberation on the body-wave analysis than we have anticipated. The sediment velocity models obtained in this study produce Rayleigh-wave admittances that are consistent with those in previous studies but with much finer structural details within the sediment layer. The reverberation waveform inversion method will enable improved predictions of the impact of the water and sediment layers in body-wave records from existing and future OBS observations.},
	issn = {1365-246X},
	doi = {10.1093/gji/ggae444},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae444},
	author = {Kim, HyeJeong and Kawakatsu, Hitoshi and Akuhara, Takeshi and Takeuchi, Nozomu and Isse, Takehi and Shiobara, Hajime and Sugioka, Hiroko and Utada, Hisashi and Kim, YoungHee and Lee, Sang-Mook}
}
@article {iwasaki_continuous_2022,
	title = {Continuous Tremor Activity With Stable Polarization Direction Following the 2014 Large Slow Slip Event in the Hikurangi Subduction Margin Offshore New Zealand},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {127},
	number = {2},
	year = {2022},
	note = {_eprint: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2021JB022161},
	month = {11/2021},
	pages = {e2021JB022161},
	abstract = {Many types of slow earthquakes have been discovered at subduction zones around the world. However, the physical process of these slow earthquakes is not well understood. To monitor offshore slow earthquakes, a marine seismic and geodetic experiment was conducted at the Hikurangi subduction margin from May 2014 to June 2015. During this experiment, a large slow slip event (Mw 6.8) occurred directly beneath the ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) network. In this study, S-wave splitting and polarization analysis methods, which have been previously used on onshore data to investigate tremor and anisotropy, are applied to continuous OBS waveform data to identify tremors that are too small to detect by the envelope cross correlation method. Continuous tremor activity with stable polarization directions is detected at the end of the 2014 slow slip event and continued for about 2 weeks. The tremors are generated around a southwest bend in the slow slip contours and at the landward edge of a subducted seamount. Our findings corroborate a previous interpretation, based on burst-type repeating earthquakes and intermittent tremor, that localized slow slip and tremor around the seamount was triggered by fluid migration following the large plate boundary slow slip event and indicate tremor occurred continuously rather than as isolated and sporadic individual events.},
	keywords = {New Zealand, polarization, S-wave splitting, Seamount, slow slip, tremor},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1029/2021JB022161},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2021JB022161},
	author = {Iwasaki, Yuriko and Mochizuki, Kimihiro and Ishise, Motoko and Todd, Erin K. and Schwartz, Susan Y. and Zal, Hubert and Savage, Martha K. and Henrys, Stuart and Sheehan, Anne F. and Ito, Yoshihiro and Wallace, Laura M. and Webb, Spahr C. and Yamada, Tomoaki and Shinohara, Masanao}
}
@article {dobashi_improving_2021,
	title = {Improving Detectability of Seafloor Deformation From Bottom Pressure Observations Using Numerical Ocean Models},
	journal = {Frontiers in Earth Science},
	volume = {8},
	year = {2021},
	month = {01/2021},
	abstract = {We investigated ocean bottom pressure (OBP) observation data at six plate subduction zones around the Pacific Ocean. The six regions included the Hikurangi Trough, the Nankai Trough, the Japan Trench, the Aleutian Trench, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and the Chile Trench. For the sake of improving the detectability of seafloor deformation using OBP observations, we used numerical ocean models to represent realistic oceanic variations, and subtracted them from the observed OBP data. The numerical ocean models included four ocean general circulation models (OGCMs) of HYCOM, GLORYS, ECCO2, and JCOPE2M, and a single-layer ocean model (SOM). The OGCMs are mainly driven by the wind forcing. The SOM is driven by wind and/or atmospheric pressure loading. The modeled OBP was subtracted from the observed OBP data, and root-mean-square (RMS) amplitudes of the residual OBP variations at a period of 3{\textendash}90~days were evaluated by the respective regions and by the respective numerical ocean models. The OGCMs and SOM driven by wind alone (SOMw) contributed to 5{\textendash}27\% RMS reduction in the residual OBP. When SOM driven by atmospheric pressure alone (SOMp) was added to the modeled OBP, residual RMS amplitudes were additionally reduced by 2{\textendash}15\%. This indicates that the atmospheric pressure is necessary to explain substantial amounts of observed OBP variations at the period. The residual RMS amplitudes were 1.0{\textendash}1.7~hPa when SOMp was added. The RMS reduction was relatively effective as 16{\textendash}42\% at the Hikurangi Trough, the Nankai Trough, and the Japan Trench. The residual RMS amplitudes were relatively small as 1.0{\textendash}1.1~hPa at the Nankai Trough and the Chile Trench. These results were discussed with previous studies that had identified slow slips using OBP observations. We discussed on further accurate OBP modeling, and on improving detectability of seafloor deformation using OBP observation arrays.},
	issn = {2296-6463},
	doi = {10.3389/feart.2020.598270},
	url = {https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2020.598270},
	author = {Dobashi, Yoichiro and Inazu, Daisuke}
}
@article {117,
	title = {Temporal and spatial variations in seismic anisotropy and V P /V S ratios in a region of slow slip},
	journal = {Earth and Planetary Science Letters},
	volume = {532},
	year = {2020},
	pages = {115970},
	type = {Journal Article},
	abstract = {In September 2014, a five week long slow slip event (SSE) occurred near Gisborne at the northern Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand, and was recorded by offshore instruments deployed by the Hikurangi Ocean Bottom Investigation of Tremor and Slow Slip (HOBITSS) project. Up to 25 cm of slip occurred directly below the HOBITSS array. We calculate shear wave splitting (SWS) and V P / V S ratios for event-station pairs on HOBITSS ocean bottom seismometers and onshore GeoNet seismic stations to determine the relationship in time and space between slow slip and these seismic properties. Spatial averaging of SWS fast azimuths yields trench-perpendicular fast azimuths in some areas, suggesting that compressive stress from plate convergence closes microcracks and controls anisotropy in the upper-plate. Variations from the trench perpendicular directions are observed near a subducting seamount, with directions closely resembling fracture and fault patterns created by subducting seamounts previously observed in both laboratory and field experiments. Temporal variations in fast azimuths are observed at three stations, two of which are located above the seamount, suggesting measurable variations in stress orientations. During the SSE, median V P / V S measurements across all offshore stations increase from 1.817 to 1.894 and SWS delay times decrease from 0.178 s to 0.139 s (both changes are significant within 95\% confidence intervals). Temporal variations in V P / V S and delay time are consistent with fluid pressurization below a permeability barrier and movement of fluids during the rupture of a slow-slip patch.},
	doi = {10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115970},
	url = {https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1123727644},
	author = {Zal, Hubert Jerzy and Jacobs, Katrina and Savage, Martha Kane and Yarce, Jefferson and Mroczek, Stefan and Graham, Kenny and Todd, Erin K. and Nakai, Jenny and Iwasaki, Yuriko and Sheehan, Anne and Mochizuki, Kimihiro and Wallace, Laura and Schwartz, Susan and Webb, Spahr and Henrys, Stuart}
}
@article {cooper_variable_2020,
	title = {Variable water input controls evolution of the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc},
	journal = {Nature},
	volume = {582},
	number = {7813},
	year = {2020},
	note = {Number: 7813 Publisher: Nature Publishing Group},
	month = {jun},
	pages = {525{\textendash}529},
	abstract = {Oceanic lithosphere carries volatiles, notably water, into the mantle through subduction at convergent plate boundaries. This subducted water exercises control on the production of magma, earthquakes, formation of continental crust and mineral resources. Identifying different potential fluid sources (sediments, crust and mantle lithosphere) and tracing fluids from their release to the surface has proved challenging1. Atlantic subduction zones are a valuable endmember when studying this deep water cycle because hydration in Atlantic lithosphere, produced by slow spreading, is expected to be highly non-uniform2. Here, as part of a multi-disciplinary project in the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc3, we studied boron trace element and isotopic fingerprints of melt inclusions. These reveal that serpentine{\textemdash}that is, hydrated mantle rather than crust or sediments{\textemdash}is a dominant supplier of subducted water to the central arc. This serpentine is most likely to reside in a set of major fracture zones subducted beneath the central arc over approximately the past ten million years. The current dehydration of these fracture zones coincides with the~current locations of the highest rates of earthquakes and prominent low shear velocities, whereas the preceding history~of~dehydration is consistent with the locations of~higher volcanic productivity and thicker arc crust. These combined geochemical and geophysical data indicate that the structure and hydration of the subducted plate are directly connected to the evolution of the arc and its associated seismic and volcanic hazards.},
	keywords = {Geochemistry, Geodynamics, Geophysics, seismology, Volcanology},
	issn = {1476-4687},
	doi = {10.1038/s41586-020-2407-5},
	url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2407-5},
	author = {Cooper, George F. and Macpherson, Colin G. and Blundy, Jon D. and Maunder, Benjamin and Allen, Robert W. and Goes, Saskia and Collier, Jenny S. and Bie, Lidong and Harmon, Nicholas and Hicks, Stephen P. and Iveson, Alexander A. and Prytulak, Julie and Rietbrock, Andreas and Rychert, Catherine A. and Davidson, Jon P.}
}
@article {yarce_seismicity_2019,
	title = {Seismicity at the Northern Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand, and Investigation of the Potential Spatial and Temporal Relationships With a Shallow Slow Slip Event},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {124},
	number = {5},
	year = {2019},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2018JB017211},
	pages = {4751{\textendash}4766},
	abstract = {In 2014{\textendash}2015, the Hikurangi Ocean Bottom Investigation of Tremor and Slow Slip experiment deployed seafloor absolute pressure gauges and ocean bottom seismometers directly above a large slow slip event, allowing examination of the relationship between slow slip and earthquakes in detail. Hikurangi Ocean Bottom Investigation of Tremor and Slow Slip data were combined with nearby existing land stations to create a catalog of microseismicity consisting of 2,300 earthquakes ranging in magnitude between 0.5 and 4.7 that is complete to magnitude 1.5, yielding almost twice as many events as detected by the onshore networks alone. This greatly improves the seismicity catalog for this active subduction zone margin, especially in the offshore portion that was difficult to study using only the inland permanent seismic network. The new locations for the events within the footprint of the offshore network show that earthquakes near the trench are systematically shallower than and NW (landward) of their locations using only land-based stations. Our results indicate that Hikurangi seismicity is concentrated in two NE-SW bands, one offshore beneath the outer forearc wedge, one onshore beneath the eastern Raukumara Peninsula, and the majority of earthquakes are within the subducting Pacific plate with a smaller percent at the plate interface. We find a 20-km wide northeast trending gap in microseismicity between the two bands and beneath the inner forearc wedge and this gap in seismicity borders the downdip edge of a slow slip patch.},
	keywords = {gap, Hikurangi, ocean bottom seismometers, seismicity, slow slip},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1029/2018JB017211},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JB017211},
	author = {Yarce, J. and Sheehan, A. F. and Nakai, J. S. and Schwartz, S. Y. and Mochizuki, K. and Savage, M. K. and Wallace, L. M. and Henrys, S. A. and Webb, S. C. and Ito, Y. and Abercrombie, R. E. and Fry, B. and Shaddox, H. and Todd, E. K.}
}
@article {Isse2019,
	title = {Surface wave tomography for the Pacific Ocean incorporating seafloor seismic observations and plate thermal evolution},
	journal = {Earth and Planetary Science Letters},
	volume = {510},
	year = {2019},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {116{\textendash}130},
	issn = {0012821X},
	doi = {10.1016/j.epsl.2018.12.033},
	url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0012821X19300032},
	author = {Isse, Takehi and Kawakatsu, Hitoshi and Yoshizawa, Kazunori and Takeo, Akiko and Shiobara, Hajime and Sugioka, Hiroko and Ito, Aki and Suetsugu, Daisuke and Reymond, Dominique}
}
@article {krischer_automated_2018,
	title = {Automated Large-Scale Full Seismic Waveform Inversion for North America and the North Atlantic},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {123},
	number = {7},
	year = {2018},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2017JB015289},
	pages = {5902{\textendash}5928},
	abstract = {We present a new anisotropic seismic tomography model based on a multiscale full seismic waveform inversion for crustal and upper-mantle structure from the western edge of North America across the North Atlantic and into Europe. The gradient-based inversion strategy utilizes the adjoint state method coupled with an L-BFGS quasi-Newton optimization scheme. To improve the handling of large data quantities in the context of full seismic waveform inversions, we developed a workflow framework automating the procedure across all stages, enabling us to confidently invert for waveforms from 72 events recorded at 7,737 unique stations, resulting in a total of 144,693 raypaths, most of them with three-component recordings. The final model after 20 iterations is able to explain complete waveforms including body as well as surface waves of earthquakes that were not used in the inversion down to periods of around 30 s. The model is complemented by a detailed resolution analysis in the form of 3-D distributions of direction-dependent resolution lengths.},
	keywords = {data management, full-waveform inversion, inverse problems, optimization, seismology, workflow},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1029/2017JB015289},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2017JB015289},
	author = {Krischer, Lion and Fichtner, Andreas and Boehm, Christian and Igel, Heiner}
}
@article {todd_earthquakes_2018,
	title = {Earthquakes and Tremor Linked to Seamount Subduction During Shallow Slow Slip at the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand},
	journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth},
	volume = {123},
	number = {8},
	year = {2018},
	note = {_eprint: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2018JB016136},
	pages = {6769{\textendash}6783},
	abstract = {Shallow slow slip events have been well documented offshore Gisborne at the northern Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand, and are associated with tectonic tremor downdip of the slow slip patch and increases in local microseismicity. Tremor and seismicity on the shallow subduction interface are often poorly resolved due to their distance from land-based seismic and geodetic networks. To address this shortcoming, the Hikurangi Ocean Bottom Investigation of Tremor and Slow Slip experiment deployed 24 absolute pressure gauges and 15 ocean bottom seismometers on the seafloor above the Gisborne slow slip patch to investigate the spatial and temporal extent of slow slip and associated tremor and earthquake activity. We present a detailed spatiotemporal analysis of the seismic signatures of various interplate slip processes associated with the September/October 2014 Gisborne slow slip event. Tectonic tremor begins toward the end and continues after the geodetically constrained slow slip event and is localized in the vicinity of two subducted seamounts within and updip of the slow slip patch. The subsequent, rather than synchronous occurrence of tremor suggests that tremor may be triggered by stress changes induced by slow slip. However, Coulomb failure stress change models based on the slow slip distribution fail to predict the location of tremor, suggesting that seamount subduction plays a dominant role in the stress state of the shallow megathrust. This and the observed interplay of seismic and aseismic interplate slip processes imply that stress changes from slow slip play a secondary role in the distribution of associated microseismicity.},
	keywords = {earthquake, New Zealand, Seamount, slow slip, subduction, tremor},
	issn = {2169-9356},
	doi = {10.1029/2018JB016136},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018JB016136},
	author = {Todd, Erin K. and Schwartz, Susan Y. and Mochizuki, Kimihiro and Wallace, Laura M. and Sheehan, Anne F. and Webb, Spahr C. and Williams, Charles A. and Nakai, Jenny and Yarce, Jefferson and Fry, Bill and Henrys, Stuart and Ito, Yoshihiro}
}
@article {Harris2016,
	title = {Investigations of Shallow Slow Slip Offshore of New Zealand},
	journal = {Eos},
	volume = {97},
	year = {2016},
	month = {mar},
	abstract = {Recent and upcoming studies of the Hikurangi margin east of New Zealand shed light on previously undetectable tectonic movements.},
	issn = {2324-9250},
	doi = {10.1029/2016EO048945},
	url = {https://eos.org/project-updates/investigations-of-shallow-slow-slip-offshore-of-new-zealand},
	author = {Harris, Robert and Wallace, Laura and Webb, Spahr and Ito, Yoshihiro and Mochizuki, Kimihiro and Ichihara, Hiroshi and Henrys, Stuart and Tr{\'e}hu, Anne and Schwartz, Susan and Sheehan, Anne and Saffer, Demian and Lauer, Rachel}
}
@article {Wallace2016,
	title = {Slow slip near the trench at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand},
	journal = {Science},
	volume = {352},
	number = {6286},
	year = {2016},
	month = {may},
	pages = {701{\textendash}704},
	issn = {0036-8075},
	doi = {10.1126/science.aaf2349},
	url = {https://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aaf2349},
	author = {Wallace, L. M. and Webb, S. C. and Ito, Y. and Mochizuki, K. and Hino, R. and Henrys, S. and Schwartz, S. Y. and Sheehan, A. F.}
}
