Centroid-moment-tensor analysis of the 2011 off the pacific coast of tohoku earthquake and its larger foreshocks and aftershocks

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 519-523

  Nettles, Meredith ^a   Ekström, Göran ^a   Koss, Howard C ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Aftershock; Centroid moment tensor; Subduction; Tohoku earthquake

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; ALGORITHM; CENTROID MOMENT TENSOR; COMPRESSION; DATA ACQUISITION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FORESHOCK; PACIFIC PLATE; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

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

EID: 83155168473     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.06.009     Document Type: Article

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