Normal-faulting earthquakes beneath the outer slope of the Japan Trench after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake: Implications for the stress regime in the incoming Pacific plate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Obana, Koichiro ^a   Fujie, Gou ^a   Takahashi, Tsutomu ^a   Yamamoto, Yojiro ^a   Nakamura, Yasuyuki ^a   Kodaira, Shuichi ^a   Takahashi, Narumi ^a   Kaneda, Yoshiyuki ^a   Shinohara, Masanao ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

FOCAL MECHANISM; INTRAPLATE EARTHQUAKES; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOGRAPHS; OCEANIC CRUST; PACIFIC PLATES; STRESS REGIME; UPPERMOST MANTLE;

EARTHQUAKES;

FAULTING; FOCAL MECHANISM; HYDRATION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; NORMAL FAULT; PACIFIC PLATE; SEISMOGRAPH; SUBDUCTION; TENSILE STRESS; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TRENCH; UPPER MANTLE;

JAPAN TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84863081609     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050399     Document Type: Article

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