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  • 5 - Reasoning from Narratives and Models: Reconstructing the Tohoku Earthquake

  • from II - Matters of Time
  • Edited by Mary S. Morgan, London School of Economics and Political Science, Kim M. Hajek, London School of Economics and Political Science, Dominic J. Berry, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book:
    Narrative Science
    Published online:
    16 September 2022
    Print publication:
    06 October 2022, pp 104-121
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    This chapter examines the role of three kinds of narratives in producing knowledge about the rupture process of the Tohoku earthquake of 2011. I show that each of the three kinds of narratives appears in one of three stages on the way from data recorded of the earthquake to a reconstruction of the rupture process. In the first stage, rupture narratives are produced by computational tools called source models. In the second stage, a set of details that is taken accurately to represent features of the actual rupture process is distilled out of these conflicting rupture narratives through the use of a ‘research narrative’. In the third stage, these distilled details are strung together into an integrating narrative. This integrating narrative is used as a research tool for formulating questions, the pursuit of which has led to the production of further evidence about the rupture process.