Decay and expansion of the early aftershock activity following the 2011, Mw9.0 Tohoku earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Lengline O ^a,b   Enescu, B ^c,d   Peng, Z ^e   Shiomi, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPANSION;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGS; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; HIGH SENSITIVITY; POSTSEISMIC SLIP; SEISMIC NETWORKS; TEMPLATE WAVEFORM; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES; TRIGGERING MECHANISM;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; SEISMICITY; SEISMOGRAPH; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

EID: 84867205949     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052797     Document Type: Article

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