Runaway slip to the trench due to rupture of highly pressurized megathrust beneath the middle trench slope: The tsunamigenesis of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake off the east coast of northern Japan

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 339-340, Issue , 2012, Pages 32-45

  Kimura, Gaku ^a   Hina, Shoko ^a   Hamada, Yohei ^a   Kameda, Jun ^a   Tsuji, Takeshi ^b   Kinoshita, Masataka ^c   Yamaguchi, Asuka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anomalously high fluid pressure; Japan Trench; Seismic profile; Silica diagenesis; Subduction zone; Temperature structure

Indexed keywords

FLUID PRESSURES; JAPAN TRENCH; SEISMIC PROFILES; SILICA DIAGENESIS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TEMPERATURE STRUCTURE;

CLAY MINERALS; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); DEFORMATION; DEHYDRATION; PRISMS; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; DIAGENESIS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FLUID PRESSURE; PACIFIC PLATE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SILICA; SLIP; SLOPE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TSUNAMI; UPLIFT;

JAPAN;

EID: 84862993370     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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