Towards a Refined 3D Model of the Western Pacific Slab to Investigate the Nature of Deep Earthquakes

Ziyi Xi1, Min Chen1,2, Tong Zhou1, Baoshan Wang3,4 and Younghee Kim5, (1)Michigan State University, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, (3)University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, (4)Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, China, (5)Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, South Korea