2016年1月29日,日本地震学家在《科学》杂志发表的研究文章《Periodic slow slip triggers megathrust zone earthquake in northeastern Japan》揭示,周期性慢滑移触发了日本东北部大型逆冲区地震。这篇文章首次提出,在大逆冲区广泛存在一种准周期的慢滑移行为。慢滑移率的周期性使我们能够在时间上更准确地预报地震成为可能。 On January 29, 2016, Japanese seismologists published a study in the journal Science “Periodic slow slip triggers megathrust zone earthquake in northeastern Japan”, revealing that a slow, periodic slip triggered a large-scale thrust in northeastern Japan. This article first proposed that there is a widespread quasi-periodic slow-slip behavior in the large thrust zone. The periodicity of slow slip allows us to predict earthquakes more accurately in time.