Source process of the 2011 off the pacific coast of tohoku earthquake inferred from waveform inversion with long-period strong-motion records

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 577-582

  Yoshida, Kunikazu ^a   Miyakoshi, Ken ^a   Irikura, Kojiro ^b  

^a GEO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b AICHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2011 tohoku earthquake; Long period ground motion; Peak moment rate distribution; Source process; Strong motion

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; GROUND MOTION; INVERSE ANALYSIS; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC SOURCE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 83155165422     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.06.050     Document Type: Article

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