Temporal change in shear velocity and polarization anisotropy related to the 2011M9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake examined using KiK-net vertical array data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Takagi, Ryota ^a   Okada, Tomomi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BOREHOLES; POLARIZATION;

COSEISMIC SLIPS; CROSS-CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVIATORIC STRESS; LAND AREAS; MAIN SHOCK; PACIFIC PLATES; POLARIZATION ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SHEAR VELOCITIES; STATIC STRESS; STRONG MOTION; TEMPORAL CHANGE; VELOCITY CHANGES; WIDE AREA;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; ANISOTROPY; BOREHOLE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; PACIFIC PLATE; POLARIZATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAM; STATIC RESPONSE; STRONG MOTION; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

JAPAN;

EID: 84861125244     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051342     Document Type: Article

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