Structural controls on the Mw 9.0 2011 Offshore-Tohoku earthquake

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 310, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 462-467

  Kennett, B L N ^a   Gorbatov, A ^b   Kiser, E ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution; Earthquake slip; Earthquakes; Japan; Joint seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

BACK PROJECTION; BROAD BANDS; DISTRIBUTION; EARTHQUAKE SLIP; ENERGY RELEASE; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; JAPAN; NEGATIVE R; P- AND S-WAVES; RUPTURE PROCESS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC-MOMENT RELEASE; SHORT PERIODS; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; WAVESPEED;

PIPE FLOW; SEISMOGRAPHS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAM; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 80053382169     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.039     Document Type: Article

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