IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology TRACKing past in the sediment record Testing and developing submarine Paleoseismology in the deep sea (JTRACK‐Paleoseismology)

IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology

Co‐Chief Scientists: Michael Strasser (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Ken Ikehara (Geological Survey of Japan, AIST)

Expedition Project Manager: Jez Everest, British Geological Survey Lena Maeda, JAMSTEC (MarE3 Liasion)

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology Short historical and even shorter instrumental records limit our perspective of maximum magnitude and recurrence

Examining prehistoric events preserved in the geological record is essential to understand long‐term history of giant earthquakes

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology “Submarine paleoseismology” is a promising approach to investigate deposits from the deep sea, where earthquakes leave traces preserved in stratigraphic succession.

Submarine paleoseismology study sites (numbers) compiled during Magellan Plus Workshop in Zürich 2015 (McHugh et al., 2016; Strasser et al., 2016)

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Challenges in Submarine Paleoseismology

 Can we distinguish different earthquake events and types from the sedimentary records?  Is there an earthquake magnitude threshold for a given signal/pattern in the geological record?  Does record sensitivity change by margin segmentation, sedimentation and/or through time?  Can we link the sedimentary signal to the earthquake rupture characteristics?

McHugh et al., 2016; Strasser et al., 2016)

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology IODP is uniquely positioned to provide data by coring sequences comprising continuous depositional conditions and records of earthquakes occurrence over longer time periods.

High-potential study sites (blue stars) for developing Paleoseismology within IODP, identified by Magellan Plus Workshop 2015 (McHugh et al.,2016; Strasser etal., 2016)

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology IODP Science Plan ‐ Earth in Motion Processes and Hazards on Human Times Scales

Challenge 12: The occurrence of destructive earthquakes, landslide and .

“Sampling and dating of event deposits and volcanic ashes will help determine the timing and size of past geohazards, ultimately allowing determination of earthquake and landslide recurrence intervals”.

The central theme of our IODP Expedition 386 is to test and develop submarine paleoseismology, en‐route towards understanding earthquake and tsunami recurrence in the Japan Trench, and eventually other margins

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Japan’s margins & the 2011-Mw9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake & tsunami

Chester et al., 2013

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology 2011 Tohoku‐oki earthquake’s fingerprint in the deep sea First event of its kind worldwide, for which the entire activity was recorded by offshore geophysical, seismological and geodectic instruments. Several fast‐response research cruises caught earthquake‐triggered sediment remobilization in action

compilation courtesy Arata Kioka

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology 2011 Tohoku‐oki earthquake’s fingerprint in the deep sea  up to 40m‐thick turbide layer observed in > 7km deep trench even 4 month after Tohoku‐oki earthquake (Oguri et al., 2013)

 Leaves characteristic event deposits in the sedimentary record (Oguri et al., 2013; Ikehara et al., 2014; compilation courtesy 2016; McHugh 2016; Kioka et al., Arata Kioka 2019)

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology 2011 Tohoku‐oki earthquake’s fingerprint in the deep sea

compilation courtesy Arata Kioka Kioka et al., 2019 Nature Scientific Report

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology 2011 Tohoku‐oki earthquake’s fingerprint in the deep sea

Kioka et al., 2019 Scientific Report

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology 2011 Tohoku‐oki earthquake’s fingerprint in the deep sea

Kioka et al., 2019 Frontiers in Earth Sciences Kioka et al., 2019 Nature Scientific Report

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology 2011 Tohoku‐oki earthquake’s fingerprint in the deep sea widespread, acoustically homogenous, fine‐grained thick mud turbidite sequence composed of very young, organic carbon‐rich remobilized marine surficial sediments deposited in isolated terminal basins of the deep sea Japan Trench

Moernaut et al., 2016

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology Japan Trench’s hadal zone geological setting Small isolated terminal basins (subducting horst‐ graben topography)

Most basins are only fed by relatively local submarine sources and poorly connected for sediment transport by gravity flow along‐ strike the trench

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology Japan Trench’s hadal zone geological setting

Kioka et al., 2019 Small isolated terminal basins (subducting horst‐ graben topography)

Most basins are only fed by relatively local submarine sources and poorly connected for sediment transport by gravity flow along‐ strike the trench

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology Japan Trench historical and margin segmentation

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology Japan Trench geological record preserve evidence for past events Large earthquakes documented from sediments deposi‐ ted in the Japan Trench over the past 1500 years (Ikehara et al., 2016)

‐> The Japan Trench is a promising setting for paleoseismology to study past earth‐quakes

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology Advanced event deposit identification and correlation

Schwestermann et al., 2020

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology Sediment and Carbon Flux to the Deep Ocean  High‐res 14C analyses on bulk organic matter (OC) reveal hemipelagic sedimentation interrupted by episodic deposition of pre‐aged OC  the co‐occurrence of pre‐aged OC with intervals corresponding to known earthquake events implies episodic, earthquake‐triggered, gravity flow‐driven supply of carbon to the trench. Bao et al., 2018 Nature Communications

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology

Japan Trench along-strike event stratigraphy correlation

Kioka et al., 2019 Frontiers in Earth Science

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology

Japan Trench along-strike event stratigraphy correlation

High-resolution subsurface hydroacoustically-imaged event-bed correlation

CENTRAL

NORTH SOUTH Kioka et al., 2019 Frontiers in Earth Science

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology

Kioka et al., 2019 Frontiers in Earth Science

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology IODP Coring – Targets in the hadal deep sea

Subbottom‐profiles from the small isolated trench‐basins image acoustic reflection pattern consistent with basin‐fill successions interbedded by episodic deposition of fine‐ grained turbidites, defining clear targets for deeper coring to sample older events not reached by conventional coring.

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology

RV Kaimei Giant Piston Coring April – June 2021

DV Chikyu – onshore Science Party October – November 2021

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology

Expedition 386 TRACKing past earthquakes in the sediment record along the Japan Trench: Testing and developing submarine Paleoseismology in the deep sea (J‐TRACK Paleoseismology) Objectives:

 Identify the sedimentological, physical, chemical, and biogeochemical proxies of event‐

deposits in the sedimentary archive that allow recognition and dating of past Mw9‐class earthquakes vs. smaller earthquakes vs. other driving mechanism.  Explore the spatial and temporal distribution of such event‐deposits to investigate along‐ strike and time‐dependant variability of sediment sources, transport and deposition processes, and stratigraphic preservation.  Develop a long‐term earthquake record for giant earthquakes.

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology Expedition 386

Japan Trench Paleoseismology

multi‐coring approach by Mission Specific Platform shallow subsurface (40m) piston coring to recover the continuous Upper Pleistocene‐to‐ Holocene stratigraphic successions of trench‐fill basins along an axis‐parallel transect of the 7‐8km deep trench

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology

Expedition 386 Japan Trench Paleoseismology

“coring composite‐stratigraphy concept” with two‐site couples that allows for coring both an expanded and a condensed stratigraphic section to fundamentally study local depositional heterogeneities and reaching further back in time

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology Expedition 386

Japan Trench Paleoseismology

The cores from proposed 18 primary (and/or 13 alternate) sites will be used for multi‐method applications to characterize event‐ deposits, for which the detailed stratigraphic expressions and spatio‐ temporal distribution will be analyzed for proxy‐evidence of earthquakes.

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology

Studying proxy‐evidence of past earthquakes in the sedimentary record 3D‐micromorphometry Provenance analysis Studying post‐depositional processes by X‐ray CT

Strasser et al., 2014 Schwestermann et al., 2020 Schwestermann et al., 2017

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology High‐resolution stratigraphy and age control Secular variation Bio and Tephra stratigraphy Advanced Radiocarbon analyses magnetic stratigraphy

Ikehara et al., 2017 Kanamatsu et al., 2017 Bao et al., 2018

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology Accompanying Studies Routing system analyses Turbidite flow modelling Seismic slope stabilty & site responde analysis

Kioka et al., 2017

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology TRACKing past earthquakes in the sediment record along the Japan Trench: Testing and developing submarine Paleoseismology in the deep sea multi‐coring approach by MSP ‐ shallow subsurface piston coring to recover the continuous Upper Pleistocene‐to‐ Holocene stratigraphic successions of trench‐fill basins to constrain earthquake‐related event‐deposits in the geological record. This can potentially produce a fascinating record unravelling an earthquake history that is 10 to a 100 times longer than currently available information, and contribute tremendously to our understanding of the recurrence pattern of giant earthquakes and earthquake‐induced geohazards globally.

JpGU 2020 2020-07-12 Michi Strasser IODP Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology TRACKing past earthquakes in the sediment record Testing and developing submarine Paleoseismology in the deep sea References: (JTRACK‐Paleoseismology)

Bao, R., Strasser, M., McNichol, A.P., Haghipour, N., McIntyre, C., Wefer, G., Englinton, T.I. (2018) Tectonically-triggered sediment and carbon export to the Hadal zone. Nature Communications 9, 121, doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02504- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02504-1

Ikehara, K., Kanamatsu, T., Nagahashi, Y., Strasser, M., Fink, H., Usami, K., Irino, T., Wefer, G., (2016) Documenting large earthquakes similar to the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake from sediments deposited in the Japan Trench over the past 1500 years. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 445, 48-56, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.04.009

Kioka, A., Schwestermann, T., Moernaut, J., Ikehara, K., Kanamatsu, T., Eglinton, T.I. & Strasser, M. (2019). Event Stratigraphy in a Hadal : The Japan Trench as Sedimentary Archive Recording Recurrent Giant Subduction Zone Earthquakes and Their Role in Organic Carbon Export to the Deep Sea. Frontiers in Earth Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00319

Kioka, A., Schwestermann, T., Moernaut, J., Ikehara, K., Kanamatsu, T., McHugh, C.M., dos Santos Ferreira, C., Wiemer, G., Haghipour, N., Kopf, A.J., Eglinton, T.I., Strasser, M. (2019) Megathrust earthquake drives drastic organic carbon supply to the hadal trench. Scientific Reports, 9, 1553. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38834-x

Molenaar, A., Moernaut, J., Wiemer, G., Dubois, N., & Strasser, M. (2019). Earthquake Impact on Active Margins: Tracing Surficial Remobilization and Seismic Strengthening in a Slope Sedimentary Sequence. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(11), 1195. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082350

Schwestermann, T., Huang, J., Konzett, J., Kioka, A., Wefer, G., Ikehara, K., Moernaut, J., Eglinton, T., Strasser, M. (2020). Multivariate statistical and multi-proxy constraints on earthquake-triggered sediment remobilization processes in the central Japan Trench. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21, e2019GC008861 https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008861

Strasser, M., Ikehara, K., and Cotterill, C., 2019. Expedition 386 Scientific Prospectus: Japan Trench Paleoseismology. International Ocean Discovery Program. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.sp.386.2019

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