Mapping the Tohoku forearc: Implications for the mechanism of the 2011 East Japan earthquake (Mw 9.0)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 524-525, Issue , 2012, Pages 147-154

  Wang, Zhi ^a,b   Huang, Wenli ^b   Zhao, Dapeng ^c   Pei, Shunping ^d  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

2011 great east Japan earthquake; Forearc mantle wedge; Interplate coupling; Slab hydration

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK SEQUENCE; ARRIVAL TIME; CHEMICAL EFFECT; FLUID PRESSURES; FOCAL DEPTH; FOREARC; FOREARC MANTLE WEDGE; GENERATION MECHANISM; HIGH VELOCITY; INTERPLATE COUPLING; MANTLE WEDGE; P- AND S-WAVES; POISSON'S RATIO; RUPTURE PROCESS; RUPTURE ZONE; SEISMIC MODEL; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; UPPER BOUNDARY; UPPERMOST MANTLE; WEAK COUPLINGS;

COUPLINGS; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FOCAL MECHANISM; MAPPING; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBDUCTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84862791940     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.12.032     Document Type: Article

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