Seismicity near the hypocenter of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake deduced by using ocean bottom seismographic data

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1125-1135

  Suzuki, Kensuke ^a   Hino, Ryota ^a   Ito, Yoshihiro ^a   Yamamoto, Yojiro ^b   Suzuki, Syuichi ^a   Fujimoto, Hiromi ^a   Shinohara, Masanao ^c   Abe, Masao ^d   Kawaharada, Yoshiharu ^d   Hasegawa, Yohei ^d   Kaneda, Yoshiyuki ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Miyagi oki; Ocean bottom seismograph; Seismicity; Tohoku oki earthquake

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FORESHOCK; ISLAND ARC; MOHO; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMICITY; SLAB; SLIP; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

HONSHU; JAPAN; JAPAN TRENCH; MIYAGI; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN]; PACIFIC OCEAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84860268130     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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