Shallow inland earthquakes in NE Japan possibly triggered by the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 749-754

  Okada, Tomomi ^a   Yoshida, Keisuke ^a   Ueki, Sadato ^a   Nakajima, Junichi ^a   Uchida, Naoki ^a   Matsuzawa, Toru ^a   Umino, Norihito ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coulomb stress change; Focal mechanism; Hypocenter distribution; Triggered earthquake

Indexed keywords

COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FAULT PLANE; FOCAL MECHANISM; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMIC DISCRIMINATION; SEISMICITY; STRESS CHANGE;

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

EID: 83155165362     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.06.027     Document Type: Article

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