[1] Interseismic GPS data along the Hualien-Suao coast (NE Taiwan) shows a pattern of strain accumulation that is consistent with a potential future large shallow earthquake along the southernmost Ryukyu subduction zone. The measured shortening rate parallel to the Ryukyu Trench is 80 mm/yr, about twice of the shortening rate perpendicular to the Ryukyu Trench. We invert for slip-deficit rates ...

A trench isolation technology employs trenches refilled with dielectric material to create, in a single layer, electrical isolation between mechanically joined components. This paper explores further use of this technology for MEMS fabrication, particularly the fabrication of electrostatic microactuators. Adding extra features to a two-mask trench isolation process new design opportunities, lik...

The Eshamy suite plutons (ESP) are in the midst of the Sanak-Baranof (SB) belt, a series of neartrench, Paleocene to Eocene granitic intrusions into the Chugach-Prince William (CPW) terrane flysch along the southern margin of Alaska (Fig.1, Garver and Davidson, this volume and references therein). Intruded from 62-48 Ma, west-to-east migration of a subducting north-south-striking mid-ocean ridg...

Deposition of snow from precipitation and wind events creates layering within seasonal snowpacks. The thickness and horizontal continuity of layers within seasonal snowpacks can be highly variable, due to snow blowing around topography and vegetation, and this has important implications for hydrology, remote sensing and avalanche forecasting. In this paper, we present practical field and postpr...

It is well accepted that subduction of the cold lithosphere is a crucial component of the Earth's plate tectonic style of mantle convection. But whether and how subducting plates penetrate into the lower mantle is the subject of continuing debate, which has substantial implications for the chemical and thermal evolution of the mantle. Here we identify lower-mantle slab penetration events by com...