Change in seismicity beneath the Tokyo metropolitan area due to the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 731-735

  Ishibe, Takeo ^a   Shimazaki, Kunihiko ^a   Satake, Kenji ^a   Tsuruoka, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake; Seismicity; Static change in the Coulomb Failure Function (ACFF); Tokyo metropolitan area

Indexed keywords

COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FOCAL MECHANISM; METROPOLITAN AREA; SEISMICITY;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO];

EID: 83155168383     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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