Nearly complete stress drop in the 2011 Mw 9.0 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 703-707

  Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Yoshida, Keisuke ^a   Okada, Tomomi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2011 Tohoku earthquake; Deviatoric stress magnitude; NE Japan subduction zone; Weak fault

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FOCAL MECHANISM; GPS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; STRESS FIELD;

JAPAN; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN];

EID: 80053026159     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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