The 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake related to a strong velocity gradient with the Pacific plate

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 663-667

  Matsubara, Makoto ^a   Obara, Kazushige ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asperity; High V coseismic slip zone; Low V oceanic crust; NIED F net; NIED Hi net; Seamount; Seismic tomography; The 2011 off the pacific coast of tohoku earthquake

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; PACIFIC PLATE; SEAMOUNT; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SLIP;

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

EID: 83155187240     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2011.05.018     Document Type: Article

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