Insight into complex rupturing of the immature bending normal fault in the outer slope of the Japan Trench from aftershocks of the 2005 Sanriku earthquake (Mw = 7.0) located by ocean bottom seismometry

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Hino, Ryota ^a   Azuma, Ryosuke ^a   Ito, Yoshihiro ^a   Yamamoto, Yojiro ^b   Suzuki, Kensuke ^a   Tsushima, Hiroaki ^a   Suzuki, Syuichi ^a   Miyashita, Makoto ^c   Tomori, Toshihiro ^c   Arizono, Mitsuharu ^d   Tange, Go ^d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^d Sendai District Meteorological Observatory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Plate bending; Slab hydration; Trench outer rise

Indexed keywords

EID: 72049092418     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GC002415     Document Type: Article

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