Frontal wedge deformation near the source region of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Ito, Yoshihiro ^a   Tsuji, Takeshi ^b   Osada, Yukihito ^a   Kido, Motoyuki ^a   Inazu, Daisuke ^a   Hayashi, Yutaka ^c   Tsushima, Hiroaki ^c   Hino, Ryota ^a   Fujimoto, Hiromi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; DEFORMATION; GAGES; EARTHQUAKES; TSUNAMIS;

ACOUSTIC RANGING; COASTAL AREA; COSEISMIC SLIPS; HORIZONTAL DISPLACEMENTS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PRESSURE GAUGES; SOURCE REGION; VERTICAL DEFORMATION; WEDGE DEFORMATIONS; 2011 TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES; BOTTOM PRESSURES; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TSUNAMI GENERATION;

EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS;

BENCHMARKING; COASTAL ZONE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; FRONTAL FEATURE; PLATE BOUNDARY; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; UPLIFT;

JAPAN;

EID: 80051745507     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048355     Document Type: Article

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