Potential tsunamigenic faults of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 831-834

  Tsuji, Takeshi ^a   Ito, Yoshihiro ^b   Kido, Motoyuki ^b   Osada, Yukihito ^b   Fujimoto, Hiromi ^b   Ashi, Juichiro ^c   Kinoshita, Masataka ^d   Matsuoka, Toshifumi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

2011 Tohoku Oki Earthquake; Cold seep communities; High scarp; Seafloor observation; Seismic reflection data; Tsunamigenic faults

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT SCARP; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI;

HONSHU; JAPAN; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN]; TOHOKU;

EID: 80051713248     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.05.028     Document Type: Article

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