中央構造線活断層帯川上断層の完新世後期における活動履歴

Late Holocene faulting along the Kawakami fault, an active segment of the Median Tectonic Line, southwest Japan

Tsutsumi Hiroyuki

Okada Atsumasa

Goto Hideaki

Matsugi Hiroaki

活断層研究

The Median Tectonic Line active fault zone (MTL), with slip rates as high as 5-10 mm/yr, is one of the most active inland faults in Japan. However, the seismic hazard evaluation on the MTL is hampered by insufficient paleoseismological data, mainly due to sparse distribution of trenching sites along the fault zone. We have conducted a first major paleoseismological study of the Kawakami fault, a segment of the MTL in northwestern Shikoku. The study includes aerial photograph interpretation and paleoseismic trenching. Two trenches were excavated across the Kawakami fault northeast of downtown Komatsu, Ehime Prefecture in 1997. The sediments exposed on the walls in the eastern trench are middle to late Holocene fluvial deposits ranging in texture from silt to gravel. These sediments are offset along an almost vertical, 3-m-wide fault zone. The sense of apparent displacement across the fault zone is down to the north, consistent with Holocene scarps around the trench site.

The sediments in the trench contain evidence for three episodes of surface-rupturing earthquake in the past 4000 years B.P. The most recent surface-rupturing earthquake, event A, on the Kawakami fault occurred sometime during the 7th and 19th century AD. Historical documents report extensive damage around the trench site during an earthquake in 1596, and this earthquake may be correlated to the latest faulting on the Kawakami fault. The penultimate event, event B, occurred sometime during the 1st and 10th century AD. Another earthquake, event C, occurred after the deposition of layer Ⅶ, which was radiometrically dated at about 4000 years B.P.

中央構造線

川上断層

トレンチ調査

最新活動時期

Median Tectonic Line

Kawakami fault

paleoseismic trenching

timing of the most recent faulting

General geography. Description and travel [ 290 ]

jpn

活断層研究会

[ISSN] 0918-1024

[NCID] AN10157356

[URI] http://topo.earth.chiba-u.jp/afr/index.htm