Slip distribution of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake inferred from geodetic data

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 627-630

  Ito, Takeo ^a   Ozawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Watanabe, Tsuyoshi ^a   Sagiya, Takeshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geodetic data; Geodetic inversion; Large coseismic slip distribution

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; GEODESY; SEISMIC MOMENT; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

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

EID: 80054761218     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.06.023     Document Type: Article

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