Tidal triggering of earthquakes prior to the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake (Mw 9.1)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Tanaka, Sachiko ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHEAR STRESS;

2011 TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES; EARTHQUAKE OCCURRENCES; INDUCED STRESS; MAINSHOCK; PHASE DISTRIBUTION; SOURCE REGION; STATISTICAL CORRELATION; TOHOKU-OKI EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKES;

CORRELATION; DECADAL VARIATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; RUPTURE; SHEAR STRESS; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

EID: 84859599059     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051179     Document Type: Article

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