Outline of the 2011 off the pacific coast of tohoku earthquake (M w 9.0) -earthquake early warning and observed seismic intensity

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 547-551

  Hoshiba, Mitsuyuki ^a   Iwakiri, Kazuhiro ^a   Hayashimoto, Naoki ^a   Shimoyama, Toshihiro ^b   Hirano, Kazuyuki ^b   Yamada, Yasuyuki ^b   Ishigaki, Yuzo ^b   Kikuta, Haruyuki ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earthquake early warning; Seismic intensity; Strong ground motion; The 2011 off the pacific coast of tohoku earthquake

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; GROUND MOTION; S-WAVE; STRONG MOTION;

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

EID: 83155177150     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.05.031     Document Type: Article

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