Propagation of an earthquake triggering front from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Miyazawa, Masatoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; SURFACE WAVES;

DYNAMIC STRESS; DYNAMIC TRIGGERING; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGERING; LARGE AMPLITUDE; MAINSHOCK; RUPTURE LENGTH; SOURCE AREA; STATIC STRESS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMICITY; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; WAVE PROPAGATION;

JAPAN;

EID: 84055182925     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049795     Document Type: Article

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