Three sub-events composing the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake (Mw 9.0) inferred from rupture imaging by back-projecting teleseismic P waves

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 595-598

  Zhang, Hao ^a   Ge, Zengxi ^a   Ding, Luyuan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Back projection; Rupture imaging; The 2011 tohoku earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; IMAGING METHOD; P-WAVE; SEISMOGRAM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

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

EID: 80455128856     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.06.021     Document Type: Article

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