The Sanriku-Oki low-seismicity region on the northern margin of the great 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake rupture

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Ye, Lingling ^a,b   Lay, Thorne ^a   Kanamori, Hiroo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; NORMAL FAULT; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEISMICITY; STRAIN RATE; THRUST FAULT; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

EID: 84857097462     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008847     Document Type: Review

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