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15 1 ( ( ) ; ) Vol. 15 No. 1 2008 1 Earth Science Frontiers ( China University of Geosciences, Beijing; eking University) Jan. 2008 1, 2 2 1 江国明 , 赵大鹏 , 张贵宾 1 ( ) , 100083 2, 980-8578 1, 2 2 1 Jiang Guoming , Zhao Dapeng , Zhang Guibin 1School of Geop hy sics and I nf or mation Technology , Ch ina University of Geosciences(B eij ing) , Beij ing 100083, China 2Dep ar tment of Geop hy sics , Tohok University , Sendai 980-8578, J ap an Jiang Guoming, Zhao Dapeng, Zhang Guibin. Detailed structure of the subducting Pacific slab beneath the Japan islands and Ja- pan sea. Earth Science Fr ontiers , 2008, 15 1) : 222-23 1 Abstract: Alt hough many studies have been made to image the subduct ing acif ic slab in and around t he Japan islands, details of t he slab structure ( such as the slab thickness, its seismic velocity, the subducting oceanic crust, as well as the depth variations of these factors) are still unclear. In this study, we have addressed this issue by using arrival times of int ermediate-depth and deep earthquakes recorded by the dense seismic network on t he Japan islands. We adopted a forw ard-modeling approach with a 3-D ray-tracing technique. We first used 333 teleseismic events and found that the thickness of the acif ic slab beneath Japan is 85 km. We t hen used 130227 -w ave travel times from 3283 local and regional earthquakes w ith focal depths greater than 40 km to study the detailed structure of the subducting acific slab. Our results show that the average velocity perturba- tions of the slab in 6 depth ranges are 55% , 40% , 35% , 25% , 20% and 60% , respectively The per- turbat ions in the dept h ran