Widespread seismicity excitation throughout central Japan following the 2011 M=9.0 Tohoku earthquake and its interpretation by Coulomb stress transfer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Toda, Shinji ^a   Stein, Ross S ^b   Lin, Jian ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; COULOMB STRESS; JAPAN SEA; MAINSHOCK; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NOMINAL STRESS; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC SLIPS; STRESS CHANGES; SUMATRA; CENTRAL JAPAN; CHILE EARTHQUAKES; COULOMB STRESS TRANSFERS; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACTIVE FAULT; CHILE EARTHQUAKE 2010; CORRELATION; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; SEISMICITY; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

CHUBU; HONSHU; IZU ISLANDS; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN; SHIZUOKA [CHUBU];

FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 80051481313     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047834     Document Type: Article

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