Seismic activity around the northern neighbor of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake with emphasis on a potentially large aftershock in the area

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 719-723

  Kosuga, Masahiro ^a   Watanabe, Kazutoshi ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake; Aftershock activity; Hypocenter distribution; Postseismic slip

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; SEISMICITY;

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

EID: 83155165369     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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