Rupture process of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki mega-thrust earthquake (M9.0) inverted from strong-motion data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 20, 2011, Pages

  Suzuki, Wataru ^a   Aoi, Shin ^a   Sekiguchi, Haruko ^a,b   Kunugi, Takashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC WAVES; EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS; SEISMOLOGY;

ACCELERATION WAVEFORM; EPICENTRAL DISTANCES; FAULT MODEL; FAULT PLANES; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCIES; IBARAKI PREFECTURE; INVERSION ANALYSIS; LOW FREQUENCY; MAXIMUM SLIP; PACIFIC PLATES; RUPTURE MODELS; RUPTURE PROCESS; SEISMIC MOMENT; SLIP MODEL; STRONG-MOTION; STRONG-MOTION DATA; VERY LOW FREQUENCY; WAVE RADIATION; STRONG MOTION; STRONG MOTION DATUM; STRONG MOTION RECORDS; TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING;

DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; SEISMIC WAVE; SLIP; STRONG MOTION; SUBDUCTION; THRUST; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TRENCH; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

JAPAN;

EID: 80055017131     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049136     Document Type: Article

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