Showing and Hiding Source Faults

You can change show/hide status of seismic source faults and select a clickable fault type.

Choose a source fault type in "Seicmic Source Fault" box, and change show/hide status of every types.

Changing visibility of seismic source faults (Checkbox)
Change show/hide status of seismic source faults on the map.
Checked faults are visible.
Selecting a clickable fault type (Radiobutton)
You can select a clickable fault type by radio buttons.

Changing visibility of seismic source faults

At first, no fault polygon is displayed since all of the checkbox are not checked.

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Click a checkbox for a seismic source fault, the selected type of faults appear.

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Surface trace of major active faults appear on the map when zoom level is 8 or more.

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Selecting a clickable seismic source fault type

Click an one of the radio buttons to select a type of clickable seismic source fault. Polygons of selected faults are arranged to be on the top layer.

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In the figure above, Subduction-Zone Earthquakes are shown in the top layer using the radio button.

Click the polygon of seismic source fault selected by the radio button to see a detailed information of the fault in "Seismic Activity Model" window.
In case you are selecting earthquakes whose occurrence patterns are taken into account in Major Subduction-Zone Earthquakes or in Major Active Fault Zones, occurrence patterns will be listed together.

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The corresponding occurrence pattern appears in the map area when you click a row of the listed occurennce patterns.
If you have been selecting Map Tab of CPE, SESM, or Exposed Pop., the map will be updated depending on which occurrence pattern you choose.

The figure below show examples of selecting occurrence pattern 1 and maximum class of "Large Earthquakes along the Nankai Trough" in Map Tab of CPE.

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Detailed information in the window when you clicked a polygon of seismic faults is same as an information in the window when you clicked "Seismic Activity Model" button in the sidebar.
Click a name of seismic source fault in "Seismic Activity Model" window, a web page about evaluation of the seismic source fault opens (in Japanese). If "Fault Parameter" link is shown in the window, you can see a PDF file about the fault parameters (in Japanese).

Click to show table of contents on the left side, if hidden.