Strain anomalies induced by the 2011 tohoku earthquake (mw 9.0) as observed by a dense gps network in northeastern japan

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1231-1238

  Ohzono, Mako ^a   Yabe, Yasuo ^b   Iinuma, Takeshi ^b   Ohta, Yusaku ^b   Miura, Satoshi ^c   Tachibana, Kenji ^b   Sato, Toshiya ^b   Demachi, Tomotsugu ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

2011 tohoku earthquake; Coseismic strain anomaly; Strain concentration zone; Structural heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GPS; STIFFNESS; STRAIN; STRESS CHANGE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011; VISCOSITY; ELASTIC MODULUS; SEDIMENTATION;

CHUBU; HONSHU; HYOGO; JAPAN; KINKI; KOBE; NIIGATA; PACIFIC COAST [JAPAN]; TOHOKU;

EID: 84864605381     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2012.05.015     Document Type: Article

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