Subevent location and rupture imaging using iterative backprojection for the 2011 Tohoku M w 9.0 earthquake

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1152-1168

  Yao, Huajian ^a   Shearer, Peter M ^a   Gerstoft, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Earthquake dynamics; Earthquake source observations; Subduction zone processes

Indexed keywords

ASIA; BACK-PROJECTION; BACK-PROJECTION METHODS; BOOTSTRAP APPROACH; BRITTLE-DUCTILE TRANSITION ZONE; COASTAL REGIONS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; EARTHQUAKE DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKE PHYSICS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; ENERGY BURSTS; ENERGY RADIATIONS; FRICTIONAL PROPERTIES; HIGH-FREQUENCY RADIATION; HYPOCENTRE; INTER-SEISMIC PERIODS; MAIN SHOCK; RUPTURE FEATURES; RUPTURE PROCESS; RUPTURE SPEED; SPATIAL AVERAGING; SPATIAL-TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SUB-EVENTS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TELESEISMIC WAVES; WAVE FORMS;

COASTAL ZONES; FREQUENCY BANDS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; BOOTSTRAPPING; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SLAB; SLIP; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; TRAVEL TIME; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 84863776812     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05541.x     Document Type: Article

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