Outer trench-slope faulting and the 2011 Mw 9.0 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 713-718

  Lay, Thorne ^a   Ammon, Charles J ^b   Kanamori, Hiroo ^c   Kim, Marina J ^a   Xue, Lian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

1933 Sanriku oki; Great normal faults; Outer rise earthquakes; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; NORMAL FAULT; PERTURBATION; TRENCH;

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

EID: 83155168390     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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