Interlocking of heterogeneous plate coupling and aftershock area expansion pattern for the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Mw9 earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Tajima, Fumiko ^a   Kennett, Brian L N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPANSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; HIGH-FREQUENCY RADIATION; LOW FREQUENCY; MAINSHOCK FAULTS; P- AND S-WAVES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RUPTURE ZONE; SOURCE AREA; SPATIAL EXPANSION;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; ARRIVAL TIME; ASPERITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; HETEROGENEITY; MAPPING; P-WAVE; PLATE BOUNDARY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

EID: 84857971500     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050703     Document Type: Article

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