Seismic evidence for reactivation of a buried hydrated fault in the Pacific slab by the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Nakajima, Junichi ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Kita, Saeko ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; DEHYDRATION; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; HYDRATION; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY;

3D SEISMIC; FOCAL AREA; LOW-VELOCITY ZONE; NORMAL FAULTS; SEISMIC EVIDENCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SOURCE AREA; 2011 TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES; LOW VELOCITY ZONES; OUTER-RISE EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC IMAGING; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES; WEAK FAULTS;

HYDRATION; EARTHQUAKES;

FAULT; MANTLE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC ZONE; SLOPE; SUBDUCTION; TENSION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TRENCH; VELOCITY;

EID: 80052220839     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048432     Document Type: Article

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