is a shallow fault system in northern Japan which was responsible for a 7.2
Rikuu earthquake in 1896, along with
surface rupture
In seismology, surface rupture (or ground rupture, or ground displacement) is the visible offset of the ground surface when an earthquake rupture along a fault affects the Earth's surface. Surface rupture is opposed by buried rupture, where th ...
. It is located near the Senya Hills in to the West of the
Ou Backbone Range and east of the
Yokote Basin in
Akita Prefecture.
[http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/BERI/pdf/IHO81202.pdf Univ of Tokyo Earthquake Research Institute: High-resolution seismic reflection profiling across the
Senya fault at Hanaoka, northern Honshu, Japan: Data
acquisition and processing]
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Seismic faults of Japan