Stress perturbations and seismic response associated with the 2011 M9.0 Tohoku-oki earthquake in and around the Tokai seismic gap, central Japan

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Enescu, B ^a   Aoi, S ^a   Toda, S ^b   Suzuki, W ^a   Obara, K ^c   Shiomi, K ^a   Takeda, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

CURVED PLATES; FOCAL MECHANISM; MAINSHOCK; MAXIMUM STRESS; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; SECONDARY IMPACTS; SEISMIC ACTIVATION; SOCIAL CONCERNS; STATIC STRESS; STRESS CHANGES; STRESS PERTURBATIONS; STRESS TRANSFER; SUBDUCTION ZONES; VARIABLE SLIP;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FOCAL MECHANISM; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

CHUBU; HONSHU; IZU PENINSULA; JAPAN; SHIZUOKA [CHUBU]; TOKAI [HONSHU];

EID: 84863316265     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051839     Document Type: Article

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