The Sanriku-oki, Japan, earthquake of December 28, 1994 (Mw 7.7): Rupture of a different asperity from a previous earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1465-1468

  Tanioka, Yuichiro ^a   Ruff, Larry ^a   Satake, Kenji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIPS; GEODESY; GEOPHYSICS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TSUNAMIS; TECTONICS;

EPICENTRAL REGION; GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC WAVEFORMS; SLIP DISTRIBUTION; SOURCE TIME FUNCTIONS; SUBDUCTION INTERFACE; WAVE INVERSIONS;

EARTHQUAKES;

FAULT GEOMETRY; SLIP DISTRIBUTION;

ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GEOMETRY; SANRIKU-OKI EARTHQUAKE 1994; TOKACHI-OKI EARTHQUAKE 1968;

JAPAN;

EID: 0030159462     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01132     Document Type: Article

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