Tsunami run-up associated with co-seismic thrust slip produced by the 2011 M w 9.0 Off Pacific Coast of Tohoku earthquake, Japan

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 337-338, Issue , 2012, Pages 121-132

  Lin, Aiming ^a   Ikuta, Ryoya ^a   Rao, Gang ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2011 M w 9.0 Off Pacific Coast of Tohoku (Japan) earthquake; Co seismic thrusting slip; GPS observation; Run up height; Sawtooth coastline; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

CO-SEISMIC THRUSTING SLIP; FIELD INVESTIGATION; GROUND DISPLACEMENT; GROUND MOTIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RUN-UP HEIGHTS; SAWTOOTH COASTLINE; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC INVERSION; SOURCE FAULT; THRUST SLIP; TSUNAMI WAVES;

FAULTING; LANDFORMS; TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT PLANE; FAULTING; GPS; REMOTE SENSING; SEISMIC DATA; SLIP; THRUST; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI; WAVE HEIGHT; WAVE RUNUP;

HONSHU; JAPAN;

EID: 84862678557     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.047     Document Type: Article

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