Static strain and stress changes in eastern Japan due to the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake, as derived from GPS data

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 741-744

  Takahashi, Hiroaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coulomb failure stress change; GPS; Maximum shear strain; Principal strain; Subsurface structure; The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake; Triggering earthquake

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; COULOMB CRITERION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FAULTING; GPS; SEISMIC ZONE; SHEAR STRAIN; STRESS CHANGE; TECTONIC PLATE; TECTONIC SETTING;

CHUBU; HONSHU; IWATE; JAPAN; MIYAGI; MOUNT FUJI; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN]; TOHOKU;

EID: 83155168382     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.06.049     Document Type: Article

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