Megaquake cycle at the Tohoku subduction zone with thermal fluid pressurization near the surface

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 325-326, Issue , 2012, Pages 21-26

  Mitsui, Yuta ^a   Kato, Naoyuki ^b   Fukahata, Yukitoshi ^c   Hirahara, Kazuro ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2011 Tohoku earthquake; Giant and large earthquakes; Thermal fluid pressurization; Thrust fault

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC SLIPS; FAULT PLANES; FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES; HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; MECHANICAL MODEL; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PORE FLUIDS; QUASI-STATIC; SLOW SLIP EVENTS; SOURCE AREA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATE-DEPENDENT; STRESS STATE; SUBDUCTION ZONES; THERMAL FLUIDS; THERMAL PRESSURIZATION; THRUST FAULTS;

EARTHQUAKES; EXPERIMENTS; FRICTION; PRESSURIZATION;

FAULTING;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; FLUID PRESSURE; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST FAULT; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84857137049     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.026     Document Type: Article

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