A deadly earthquake swarm that has been rocking Japan for three years is possibly being caused by an ancient volcano.
An earthquake swarm refers to a sequence of seismic events occurring in a local area within a relatively short period.analyzed what might be causing an"ongoing intense" earthquake swarm in the crust of Japan's Noto Peninsula.
A stock photo shows an abstract of magma texture. A swarm of earthquakes in Japan is thought to be linked to a long-dead volcano.This suggests that the earthquakes are"These findings were surprising in multiple ways," author of the study Keisuke Yoshida, told."We were first surprised by the clarity of the migrations of seismicity from deep to shallow through a complex fault network, which we believe represents the movement of fluids originating from the subducting plate.
"The present results suggest that hidden magma-induced structures and fluids can generate earthquakes even in areas where no volcanic activity has been observed for over 10 million years," the study said.
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