The 2000 western Tottori (Japan) earthquake: Triggering of the largest aftershock and constraints on the slip-weakening distance

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Di Carli, Sara ^a   Voisin, Christophe ^b   Cotton, Fabrice ^b   Semmane, Fethi ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c Centre de Recherche en Astronomie Astrophysique et Geophysique   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; SLIP RATE;

EID: 55349084071     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB004951     Document Type: Article

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