Sources of shaking and flooding during the Tohoku-Oki earthquake: A mixture of rupture styles

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 333-334, Issue , 2012, Pages 91-100

  Wei, Shengji ^a   Graves, Robert ^b   Helmberger, Don ^a   Avouac, Jean Philippe ^a   Jiang, Junle ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite fault; High rate GPS; Strong motion; Tohoku Oki earthquake; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; FINITE FAULT; FORWARD SIMULATION; HIGH RATE; NATURAL HAZARD; PROCESS-DRIVEN; SEA FLOOR; SOURCE MODELS; STRONG GROUND MOTION; STRONG MOTION; SUB-SURFACES; SUBDUCTION ZONES; THERMAL PRESSURIZATION; TSUNAMIGENIC;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; TECTONICS; TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FLOODING; GPS; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC PLATE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI;

HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 84861155562     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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