A complex rupture image of the 2011 off the pacific coast of tohoku earthquake revealed by the MeSO-net

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 583-588

  Honda, Ryou ^a   Yukutake, Yohei ^a   Ito, Hiroshi ^a   Harada, Masatake ^a   Aketagawa, Tamotsu ^a   Yoshida, Akio ^a   Sakai, Shin'ichi ^b   Nakagawa, Shigeki ^b   Hirata, Naoshi ^b   Obara, Kazushige ^b   Kimura, Hisanori ^c  

^a HOT SPRINGS RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF KANAGAWA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Back projection; MeSO net; Rupture images; Semblance; The 2011 tohoku earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; GROUND MOTION; METROPOLITAN AREA; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 83155177119     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.05.034     Document Type: Article

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