The March 11, 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake and cascading failure of the plate interface

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Kiser, Eric ^a   Ishii, Miaki ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE INTERFACES;

BACK-PROJECTION; CASCADING FAILURES; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; ENERGY RELEASE; IN-PHASE; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MAINSHOCK; PLATE INTERFACES; RUPTURE AREAS; SINGLE EVENT;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FORESHOCK; INTERFACE; TECTONIC PLATE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84857960858     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051170     Document Type: Article

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