Change in stress field after the 2011 great Tohoku-Oki earthquake

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 355-356, Issue , 2012, Pages 231-243

  Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Yoshida, Keisuke ^a   Asano, Youichi ^b   Okada, Tomomi ^a   Iinuma, Takeshi ^a   Ito, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

2011 Tohoku Oki earthquake; NE Japan subduction zone; Stress change; Stress tensor inversion; Weak fault

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL STRESS; MAINSHOCK; PACIFIC PLATES; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PRINCIPAL STRESS; RUPTURE AREAS; SHALLOW DEPTHS; SOURCE REGION; STRAIN ACCUMULATIONS; STRESS CHANGES; STRESS FIELD; STRESS TENSORS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TEMPORAL CHANGE; UPPER PLATE; WEAK FAULT;

COMPRESSIVE STRESS; TENSORS;

EARTHQUAKES;

COMPRESSION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; HANGING WALL; PLATE CONVERGENCE; STRESS FIELD; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKE 2011;

JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84867339690     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.042     Document Type: Article

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