Hierarchical asperity model for multiscale characteristic earthquakes: A numerical study for the off-Kamaishi earthquake sequence in the NE Japan subduction zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Hori, Takane ^a   Miyazaki, Shin'Ichi ^b  

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

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERITY MODEL; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; INTER-SEISMIC PERIODS; MICRO-EARTHQUAKES; MICROASPERITY; MULTISCALES; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; RUPTURE AREAS; SIMULATION RESULT; SPATIAL SIZE; STRESS LEVELS; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

NUCLEATION; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; MICROEARTHQUAKE; NUCLEATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; KAMAISHI; TOHOKU;

EID: 77953046380     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL042669     Document Type: Article

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