Stress before and after the 2011 great Tohoku-oki earthquake and induced earthquakes in inland areas of eastern Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Yoshida, Keisuke ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Okada, Tomomi ^a   Iinuma, Takeshi ^a   Ito, Yoshihiro ^a   Asano, Youichi ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRESSES;

DIFFERENTIAL STRESS; FOCAL MECHANISM; INDUCED SEISMICITY; PRINCIPAL STRESS; STATIC STRESS; STRESS FIELD; DEVIATORIC STRESS; STRESS TENSOR INVERSIONS; TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKES;

FOCAL MECHANISM; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMICITY; STATIC RESPONSE; STRESS FIELD; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; INDUCED SEISMICITY;

CHUBU; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOHOKU;

EID: 84856712009     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049729     Document Type: Article

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