Spatial variations in earthquake source characteristics within the 2011 Mw = 9.0 Tohoku, Japan rupture zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Bilek, Susan L ^a   Deshon, Heather R ^b   Robert Engdahl, E ^c  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; EVENT LOCATION; FRICTION CONDITIONS; RADIATION FREQUENCIES; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; RUPTURE ZONE; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SLIP ZONES; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SLIP; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TRENCH; TSUNAMI;

JAPAN;

EID: 84862080754     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051399     Document Type: Article

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