Smooth and rapid slip near the Japan Trench during the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake revealed by a hybrid back-projection method

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 355-356, Issue , 2012, Pages 94-101

  Yagi, Yuji ^a   Nakao, Atsushi ^a,b   Kasahara, Amato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

2011 Tohoku oki earthquake; Back projection; Seismic source process; Smooth and rapid slip near trench

Indexed keywords

BACK-PROJECTION; BACK-PROJECTION METHODS; DATA SETS; ELASTIC STRAIN; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; MAXIMUM SLIP; NORMALIZED CROSS-CORRELATION; REFLECTED PHASIS; SEISMIC ENERGY; SEISMIC ENERGY RELEASE; SEISMIC RADIATION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SMOOTH AND RAPID SLIP NEAR TRENCH; SOURCE AREA; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STRUCTURAL DISCONTINUITY; TELESEISMIC; WAVE FORMS;

FREQUENCY BANDS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EARTHQUAKES;

DATA SET; GREEN FUNCTION; P-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; SLIP; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TELESEISMIC WAVE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

JAPAN TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84867114725     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.018     Document Type: Article

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