No. 43 · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 1 December 2026

Control of back-arc mantle rheology on far-field postseismic deformation of the Korean Peninsula after the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

Hyeon-Seob Kim, Minsu Kim, Dong-Hyo Sohn, Sung-Moon Yoo, Sungshil Kim, Seongryong Kim, Byung-Dal So

DOI 10.1016/j.epsl.2026.120241 Publisher page Cite Geodynamics and Earth structure Earthquake properties

Representative figure

Regional maps and three-dimensional cross sections showing the Korean Peninsula, Japanese subduction system, plate geometry, continental asthenosphere, and low-viscosity back-arc mantle in the viscoelastic model. — Low-viscosity back-arc mantle controls the early transient deformation, whereas the continental asthenosphere governs the steady-state response across the Korean Peninsula.

Figure 1 · Kim et al. (2026), Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Figure 1. · CC BY 4.0

Citation

Hyeon-Seob Kim, Minsu Kim, Dong-Hyo Sohn, Sung-Moon Yoo, Sungshil Kim, Seongryong Kim, and Byung-Dal So (2026), Control of back-arc mantle rheology on far-field postseismic deformation of the Korean Peninsula after the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 695, 120241, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2026.120241. [Open access]